The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.