It's during a storm that the best songs get written.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality.

because daytime leaves vampires less than, well, conscious, I told him, “Take your muffins to Boston and shut it, Terrance.” And then I hung up on him.

Everyone has a breaking point. Deny it, and you'll blind yourself to know when you've reached yours.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

When I'm buying car insurance I ask myself, 'Which company has the most annoying and relentless commercials?'

I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.

The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a six four impala!