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The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.
I hope that in my thirties I grow as a writer, push into new territory.
All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.
I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.
That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.
I'm so fascinated by how people destroy each other and love each other.
I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.
In reality, every reader is, while reading, the reader of his own self.
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.
My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
On Jan. 1, 2012, I resolved to not buy anything from Amazon for a year.
For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.
Nothing makes an android feel more useless than when a human is crying.
Once again, I arrived at my usual conclusion: one must educate oneself.
I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.
The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.
It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.
By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.
Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.
Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.
All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.
Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.
I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.
Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.
A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world!.
Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.
Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.
But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.
New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.
I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that.
I've learned that memories can have a physical, almost living presence.
You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.