“I added that it was no fun to grow old, but that the compensation for it was that time turned your mental shit-detector into a highly calibrated instrument.”
“Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river! Dreams! adorations! illumnations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!”
“There are two ways to increase your wealth. Increase your means or decrease your wants. The best is to do both at the same time.”
“In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant.”
“If you're honest 99% of the time, they'll believe your bullshit when you need that 1%.”