It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Be a bit of a challenge not because you're playing games but because you realize you're worth the extra effort.

At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain; But all through Love in time is healed again.

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

In a world full of monochromatic tadpoles, if you are fluorescent it does not matter what size of tadpole you are.