Dave, would you please tell your wife she can relax. She’s got the job. It isn’t necessary for her to keep pointing out our short-comings just so you can feel better about leaving us.

There is no poetry or song. There is no short or long.There is only you.

The mind gives birth to tangibility

There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

We're characters not of this world, so our knowledge about stuff, that other character's don't have, is quite fun.

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.