“It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.”

“....maybe fear is God's way of saying, "Pay attention, this could be fun.”

“I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.”

“Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.”

“Anyway, if you needed something really dangerous, get a gun. It's easy, it's cheap, and it's the American way.”

“Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama. You put all you're hope and all your dreams and all your ideas about stuff into one human being. They're a human being they're going to let you down. You can't make someone your hero because of something you read on the internet. The internet is not a source of information it is a source of disinformation.”

“For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.”