I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.
A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
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.
I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.
As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to watch Nixon resign. My first idea of a president was of a guy who was a crook.
Adam, who said to Eve, What do you mean you have nothing to wear? Never got a dinner!
Our inner weighing of evidence is not a careful mathematical calculation resulting in a probabilistic estimate of truth, but more like a whirlpool blending of the objective and the personal. The result is a set of beliefs - both conscious and unconscious - that guide us in interpreting all the events of our lives.