We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?

He has the most who is most content with the least.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I pissed on the man who called me a dog. Why was he so surprised?

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

He lit a lamp in broad daylight and said, as he went about, "I am looking for a human."

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.

Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.

That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that's all they're gonna keep wanting from you.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?