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“The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.”
Source : "Paul F. Tompkins on how and why he spent 25 years without a driver's license". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 10, 2015. 
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“My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.”
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“Overall, Id say I was an awesome bookseller, but probably not the best book shelver. I loved recommending books and helping people find books.”
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“Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.”
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“I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.”
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“In Colma, a suburb of San Francisco, California there's a proposal pending to tax . . . the dead. If proponents get their way, grave sites will be taxed $5 dollars - per grave, per year - for eternity. In Colma the dead outnumber the living by a ratio of roughly 1000-to-1, including such notables as: Wyatt Earp, Levi Strauss, and William Randolph Hearst. And they, apparently, haven't paid their fair share. For liberals, when it comes to taxes . . . nothing is sacred.”
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“German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.”
Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
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“In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy.”
Source : Chris Bradford (2010). “The Ring of Earth (Young Samurai, Book 4): The Ring of Earth”, p.62, Penguin UK
