"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."

"Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say."

"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."

"There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release."

"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."

"Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable."

"Everything you can imagine is real."