Thank God I'm An Atheist.

If Someone Were To Tell Me I Had Twenty Years Left, And Ask Me How I'd Like To Spend Them, I'd Reply 'give Me Two Hours A Day Of Activity, And I'll Take The Other Twenty-two In Dreams.'

You Have To Begin To Lose Your Memory, If Only In Bits And Pieces, To Realize That Memory Is What Makes Our Lives. Life Without Memory Is No Life At All... Our Memory Is Our Coherence, Our Reason, Our Feeling, Even Our Action. Without It We Are Nothing.

The Bar... Is An Exercise In Solitude. Above All Else, It Must Be Quiet, Dark, Very Comfortable-and, Contrary To Modern Mores, No Music Of Any Kind, No Matter How Faint. In Sum, There Should Be No More Than A Dozen Tables, And A Client That Doesn't Like To Talk.

Repeat, Over And Over Again, In Case Anyone Forgets It Or Believes The Contrary, That We Do Not Live In The Best Of All Possible Worlds.

Age Is Something That Doesn't Matter Unless You're A Cheese