A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching . . . by and large, chores are a thing of the past.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.

Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.

I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

I don't really plan. I just see what happens.

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.