Don't look for the meanings; look for the use.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known.

Maybe I am everything I knew that I would never be. I looked back at Jay and smiled.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

Friday night's alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday tooEvery night is a night of fightingWith family and friends like you

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.

I believe all that God ever revealed, and I never hear of a man being damned for believing too much; but they are damned for unbelief.

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.