The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent

There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live a physician will be made fun of but he will be well paid.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.