You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.
To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.
Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
Life on the open road is liberty. . . to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solitarily in conquest of the world.
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
If we had about 100 years, that sort of slow cultural conversion would be exactly the thing to do. But physics is calling the tune here. We've got to respond to a timetable that physics has set for us.
Are you making life or is life making you?
It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.
I was in a department store and I saw a weird-looking gadget. I asked the young saleslady what it was. She answered, "It doesn't do anything. It's just a Christmas gift. "