Evolution is faith, a religion.

to have faith is precisely to lose one's mind so as to win God.

The other day in prayer I said to God, "Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?".

I do all kind of fun things when I'm unconscious.

I think positive stress is actually a good thing. It's sort of the stretch goal "Wow, let me see how much faster I can run" or "Let me see how many more ideas I can generate in five minutes."

Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?

Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

I like to walk around Manhattan, catching glimpses of its wild life, the pigeons and cats and girls.