"Ultimately the way to win the game of life, is found in only one thing: Our ability to choose meaning in any life circumstance. Become the master of meaning and you master your life."

“I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.”

“In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.”

“My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.”

“Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.”

Source : Tom Butler-Bowdon (2010). “50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus”, p.13, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

“Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.”

“I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for the villain to win. Why? Isn't that against the rules by which our society lives? Why should you feel this way? It's simple, really; the villain is the true hero of these tales, not the well-intentioned moron who somehow foils their diabolical scheme. The villain get's all the best lines, has the best costumes, has unlimited power and wealth- why on earth would anyone not want to be the villain?”

“Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.”

Source : Albion Woodbury Small (1907). “Adam Smith and Modern Sociology: A Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, Chicago, U. P

“Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.”