I really feel that from my heart that, no matter the number of best stories may exist in this world or on this very planet earth, I find only one story to be the real one, and that is the very story of escape.

The game begins when you step into the ballpark, and it never really ends.

I always did whatever I liked,” she said, “but now I really can do it.

And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

A food critic really only needs two things in order to do his job properly: no eating disorders and the gastric morals of a hooker with a mortgage

Thomas Edison was a graduate of Cooper Union. Like Otis, he is principally famous for things he didn’t do. He didn’t invent electricity, or the lightbulb, the phonograph or the movies. These misappropriations didn’t bother him much: he didn’t correct folk. What he was good at, what he really knew, was patents

If you want to know what the Georgians were really like, just watch the furniture experts on the Roadshow, those spraunced and pinched plonkers with marbled hair and patinated jowls pulling ancient drawers off old widows’ ball-and-claw feet and getting all arch about their lovely dovetails. That’s the true voice of Georgiana.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Anywhere the wind blows

Doesn’t really matter to me

I think it’s really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It’s such an absurdity to take anything really seriously… I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what’s the story here? Being alive is so weird

You come to a point in your life when you really don’t care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.

Some of the generals are saying, ‘We’re making progress. We are clearing an area.’ But you really don’t defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

The only meaningful life is a life that strives for the individual realization—absolute and unconditional—of its own particular law

She may not be the most popular or prettiest but if you love her and she makes you smile… what else matters?

It’s not a matter of whether psychedelics will be integrated into society, but how. Will we integrate them like a glider pilot, gracefully and with careful attention to our instruments? Or will we integrate them like a kamikaze pilot, crashing in flames?

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

Don’t let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Appreciate the little things in life, they’re what really matter the most.