"Fleeing from death is the shortest path to a wasted life."

"We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is."

"It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out."

"(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available."

"The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance."

"The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa."

"We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time"

"The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary."

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are aftermath of war."

"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

"If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by."