Privileged quotes

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

I don't want to have life figured out and then wonder, "What's next?" That seems scary to me.

When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities--a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel.

My advice for the next commander in chief: Listen to your military advisers. Listen to your generals. They are the experts. Even if you have a commander in chief who has served in the military, that person still isn’t engaged on a daily basis. The generals will know best.

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

Truth telling is the first building block of character -- a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.