Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

He who conquers, endures.

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

Your knowing a thing is nothing, unless another knows you know it.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Oh, the cares of men! how much emptiness there is in human concerns!

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.

This typewriter is the only one that has listened to me throughout the years, the only one who wants to know the girl beneath my layers.

These days people call entertainment capturing someone at their lowest moment and then posting it for the world to see.

Hard work is much more important than talent

... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and die without realizing their spiritual wealth.

I think everyone is born funny. Sadly, some lives beat it out of them. I don't know what allows someone to keep being funny and actually make a career of it.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

I almost never shoot people.

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

I live between two things-I live between art and pop all the time.