I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.