“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.”
“It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. And it feels like being born”
“One way to overcome a fear of drowning is to become buoyant in the sea of life.”
“I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.”
“There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”