I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

Truth is commodity in political consumption.

There is no one that should be disqualified from fellowshipping with God

You can’t make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?

True evil is always petty and often incompetent.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

Perhaps the most important ingredient in my work... is my brain - particularly the right brain... the free spontaneous side, and the left brain, which is careful and methodical.

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.

It is absolutely stunning. You cannot read numbers that communicate what the reality is. That's part of what I'm trying to get across and that's partly why I use video.

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.