The wise oyster stays in its shell.

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

The search for first causes is the ultimate wild goose chase.

When you separate thought from life, you get philosophy.

Logical positivism is philosophy from the neck up.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

No explanation is ever as good as not having one.

The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.

Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth.

Don’t depend on someone else’s plumages to define your beauty. You have brighter and beautiful feathers. Just fly with them!

I am sure of this: I am not crying. It is just that stupid drops of water that comes out of my eyes, now and then.

America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Animals teach us about the animals in ourselves. We need their spirits.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

The key is to do what you love.

I've always played the guys that end up having the wisecracks.