If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; that is all we know. Seek no meaning in anything you see here. Images, ideas, flashes of purpose will peer out in all our ways and deeds, but there is no intention here below. Is there any intention anywhere?

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.