If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea.

If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much.

It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself.

You're in my personal space, so get out of it.

People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.

My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.

You can never see a plant grow, but they do.

People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.

If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when they thought none were around. Knowing who they are defeats the purpose.

Capitalism needs war.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.

I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited.

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.