What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.

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.

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.

Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.

He loved her enough to know she was better off without him

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the slums was right there on the ground.

Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold.