Your talent sets you apart: if you were a toad or a tarantula, even then, people would respect you, for to talent all things are forgiven.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Man created words to free himself

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Hooka Tooka, my soda cracker, does your momma chaw tobacca?

The condition of the United States in the post-postmodern, or post-post-irony period. It's what the country will become when there is nothing left but mediated images of its substance.

I don't believe in the landscape.

What is man's love? His vows are broke even while his parting kiss is warm.

Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name.

I would be an idiot to say comedy is easy, but it does come naturally. It never feels forced.

God's foremost treasure on earth Is my ever-blossoming Gratitude-heart.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.