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.

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

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.

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

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.

What you have with her will save her. Just as it saved you.

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.