We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

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.

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

Just be happy that something traveled 5,000 miles across the Pacific and, for once, it wasn't your job.

What good can the scriptures do to a man who has no sense of his own? Of what use is as mirror to a blind man?

I’m quite capable of walking,” she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short.” They are not!

Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers

Then I went to radio with Sinatra and I watched that disappear.

If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

I think a lot of people get into stand-up to be the center of attention, which is perfectly legitimate. But I think I got in there to be heard.

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.