We don't grow older, we grow riper.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.