Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Pray in the spirit when you call on the Lord to show you your calling

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

You must have something in order to give it up.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

Cats seldom make mistakes, and they never make the same mistake twice.

I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.

When you're a guy and meet a girl the first time, you do whatever it takes.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.

You are what you love, not who loves you... a person who loves has always won, no matter whether or not the love is fulfilled.