The wisest man knows he know nothing.

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.

Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

Death should take more care with his paperwork.

He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

All coincidences are Odd. That's what makes them coincidences.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.

hope could betray you—but if you had no hope, life could actuallysurprise you in the best of ways.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those two for everything.

There's no such thing as an easy anything.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.

If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.