There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

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.

Religion as a philosophy is superior to religion as a practice.

Sometimes you just want to stop and dance and celebrate mortality. Stop, dance feed your spirit.

There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.

And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job security.

I love chocolate. Black chocolate with marshmallow inside, caramel inside. If I could only have two foods, I'd take some fantastic chocolate. And some terrible chocolate. I love the Clark Bar.

When you look at the history of wars, they ultimately revolve around one claim: "My god is better than yours."