Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

I like to do things quickly because I’m easily bored.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

Writing is fun – at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That’s easy to manage.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Friends are thieves of time.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.