Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

Greed has two teachers

One would think a writer would be happy here -- if a writer is every happy anywhere.

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.

Many a truth is told in jest.

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war

You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.