When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

Married sex is like being awake during your own autopsy. It is root canal work without anesthetic.

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.

I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

I refuse to be silenced.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in a throne and looks at us.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.

It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.

Dying is easy; comedy is hard.

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.

I am dying of hunger.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.