"Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"True wisdom begins when you realize the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"Wisdom principle 82 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 2."

"I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women."

"If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'"

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."

"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."