We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

i am a museum full of artbut you had your eyes shut

A bore is a man who when you ask him how he is tells you.

Most public bathrooms now have automatic toilet sensors. People can't even be trusted to flush.

I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.