While life could be evaded, death could not.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.

When I see that people want to listen to me and when I feel that they are supporting the goals that I am committed to, then I am very pleased.

Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.

No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.

A woman beautiful facially can negate all her beauty by no longer being feminine.

The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will.

Wisdom is the essential basis of greatness.