Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

The sunset glow of self-possession.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

If you are not planning for success, then you are planning for failure.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

I'm not much of a jokester.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Kant thinks we can show that there is no contradiction in supposing we are free.

People are disappointed when the world doesn't end on their watch.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Velcro: what a rip-off.