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Words are a means to an end. Those who chase after them inevitably fail to reach that end.

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

In California depth is measured in feet: six feet on one end of the pool and three feet on the other.

Sympathy is to love thy neighbor. Empathy is to leave her alone.

If death is perfect enlightenment, life appears to be the perfect opposite.

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

Reality is fatal whereas fantasy is something to die for.

Marriage is a lie - the most beautiful lie two people can share.

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

To imagine the world without gods and religion is reasonable enough; to imagine mankind without them is an entirely different matter.

There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it.

Fireworks: we shoot them off gaily while our dogs hide under the bed. Philosophers are dogs!

Cockroach: What is war?
Man: How we lost the human race.

Just because one is born in sin is no reason to brag about it.

Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.

Writers are liars trying to come clean. That's why the best ones are the most tragic.

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

Culture preaches monogamy while Nature repeats it - over and over again.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

It is said that the depressive has a clearer view of reality than does the euphoric. Perhaps, but the euphoric has a clearer view of life.

Those who do not preach life but live it do not smile to the lily near the bank; they look for stones and hang on.

There may be deep thought, but deep people don't exist. Our bodies must float on the surface, otherwise we drown.

Physiologically, the union of two opposites is a pleasurable affair. Why should the psyche be any different?

There are but two states to the primitive mind: warring and boring.

Modernity of form is the style of old fogies yet to be.

Temptation is the voice of reason without its clothes on.

Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.

From our myopia arose our dystopia.

If culture were clothing, it would be more like negligee than a parka. That's why it's so sexy.

Somethingism is better than nihilism.

The hermit is he who needs a friend, and in the absence of a community has befriended himself.

It's always the bastard who is most patriotic.

We need but three things to change the world: a brain, a heart, and a friend.

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

If pleasure is Nature's seal of approval, sleep is her reward.

We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don't die that way.

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

A creative life has nothing to do with where you're from or how much money you earn. It's merely a reflection of the creative intellect.

When hunting a Maltese Falcon, catch it, but don't scratch it!

A joke is a question of mind over manner.

Laughing is the body's approval of the absurd.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.