You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Mental power tended to corrupt, and absolute intelligence tended to corrupt absolutely, until the victim eschewed violence entirely in favor of smart solutions to stupid problems.

Our business in life is not to succeed but to continue to fail in high spirits.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Luck can't last a lifetime, unless you die young.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

If a guru falls in the forest with no one to hear him, was he really a guru at all?

"We're not talking about the same thing," he said. "For you the world is weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

Set the cart before the horse.