Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is.

I try to keep it real simple. I try not to add a lot of frosting on what I'm doing. Just take the swing and don't muscle the swing, because if you get in the hitting position and you take the swing, I generate a lot more bat speed, and that works for me.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics a rational ethics as a precondition of rebirth.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people.

I have a problem with too much money. I can't reinvest it fast enough, and because I reinvest it, more money comes in. Yes, the rich do get richer.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

A penny will not buy a penny postcard or a penny whistle or a single piece of penny candy. It will not even, if you're managing the U.S. Mint, buy a penny.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

As is the case with all good things in life - love, good manners, language, cooking - personal creativity is required only rarely.

There's not a pill you can take; there's not a class you can go to. Stupid is forever.

Everyone remembers the last thing you did.