"God has been expelled," says writer and thinker Gore Vidal. "I think he knows when he's on a losing wicket." "Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over," said the late, great Ray Charles.
"I could write about failure only because I could deal with it," said the late, great playwright Arthur Miller. "Most of my work before 'Death of a Salesman,' 98 percent of it was a failure. By the time Willy Loman came along, I knew how he felt."
"'Does it bother you that girls want to sleep with you because you're famous?' -- that's a tough one," said actor Michael J. Fox. "Lemme think about that. No."
Such wise thoughts and many, many more are housed in the book "The Meaning of Life: Wisdom, Humor, and Damn Good Advice from 64 Extraordinary Lives."
Collected from the "What I've Learned" column in Esquire magazine, the book features candid, pithy distillations of interviews with 64 actors, writers, musicians, politicians and other famous folk. As a self-help tome and soul guidance, it sure beats the hell out of Oprah.
Edited by Ryan D'Agostino, "The Meaning of Life" is in bookstores now.
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