“I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.”

“I lived for the night, because I could go over to your house. It was the only thing that kept me going. You were the only thing, actually. It was… you.”

“Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash"
Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge”

“Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a gap. When you stub your toe on the foot of the bed, that was a gap in knowledge. And the pain is a lot of information really quick. That's what pain is.”

“You owned the world when you were a young man, felt it like it was fashioned to fit your hands. You could do anything with it you wanted to. But the world kept changing, and sooner or later there came a day when it didn’t feel like you were the one the world was interested in any more.”

“bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks… you really have to be on your toes all the time.”

“I never did learn how to live in the moment, but I did learn that moments could be wasted and the world would continue to spin on its axis.”

“I think we are at our best when we work with our natural eruptions, use them as fuel for the fire.”

“Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.”

“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”