The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

I want to make sure I continue to make good music that my mom and everybody around me can be proud of.

In the year 3000, everything will be instant.

Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

The biggest problem facing our world today is a lack of hope and a lack of meaning. [It's] basically just a postmodern world in which there is no right or wrong, no better or worse.

Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

I cannot stress the importance of pausing to take a few deep breaths throughout the day. It's simple and effective.

You are not my high school crush, idiot.” “Great. I can die happy, then.

"Fun to drive" is a pleasant illusion in most places robustly inhabited where "safe to drive" makes much more sense.