Of all funny things, truth is the funniest.

Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating.

There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

Our life is just as long or short as our remembering: as rich as our imagining, as vibrant as our feeling, and as profound as our thinking.

Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.

The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.

Love is like chickenpox. It's much worse when it comes late.

An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.

People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.

Sometimes being too nice is dangerous, you have to show your mean side once in a while to avoid getting hurt.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

And the trouble is if you don't risk anything you risk even more.

We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.

The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.

My mistakes have been some of the best teachers of my life.

Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.