Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose

A broken thing can't fix itself.

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.

And wishes, truly wishes, that she could say the same herself. Because hurting herself would be so much easier.

Hey, see if they've got any pie. Bring me some pie. I love me some pie.

All we can do is search for the falsity content in our best theory.

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.