The best life is that which makes the best of life.
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book.
Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.
Not writing at all leads to nothing.
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows.
The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell. Satan's principal agent Dyspepsia must have charge of this branch of the vegetable kingdom.
I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself. . . I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.
With a heavy load and a long journey