And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Words can mean nothing, or be daggers in someone's heart. Choose them wisely.

Smile: Happiness Is Right Under Your Nose!

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer.

You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.

If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered.

I don't want money badly enough to work for it.

I'm really happy I was kicked out of CalArts (for a controversial art piece I made).