Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

..., dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests.

I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.

I've got the strangest build. It's big in the hips, small in the waist and I've got these enormous ... shoulders.

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

I don't profess to be a healer, a minister, a priest. I feel as an entertainer I can do more good for the world than I would if I were a soapbox orator or a self-made politician.

Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.

A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.

By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.