What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Every life is precious.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of...

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves...

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.