"Perhaps success should not mean that you have nothing to say to anyone, no time for anybody, and not a moment left in your calendar for someone whom you might suddenly realize you love."

“People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.”

“He was a man too busy to flush toilets.”

Source : Mona Simpson (2011). “A Regular Guy”, p.3, Vintage

“Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes: You already are. You always were. And you still have time to be.”

“When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.”

“I know how to make money. That's what I know. Not too many people know that, that well.”

“The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.”

“The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.”

“Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.”