Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

Good music always defeats bad luck

But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.

While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

I love pop music. It's not easy to write a good pop song.

We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.

Rock star, flier than an ostrich...

Sometimes I underestimate the magnitude of me.

The commodiousness of money is indeed great; but there are some advantages which money cannot buy, and which therefore no wise man will by the love of money be tempted to forego.