Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted..

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demand….

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care..

maturity ... is letting things happen..

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world..

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word..

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures..

Ideas move fast when their time comes..

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only t….

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning..

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt..

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate..

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed..

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard..

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions..

... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world..

The journey is over. Love to all..