The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.