Bad dreams-they remind us of the goodness of life.

You're the only you. So if you want to be original, just be yourself.

They see a void. I see everything that fills it.

Good reasons do not exist for poisoning the water supply.

Partisan politics is hell.

Thinking is irrelevant to any profound understanding of the world.

Better to let ideals die than people.

The world is real; philosophy is the illusion.

Trifles? Are there any?

There is only one way to escape the madness of this world, and that is to enjoy it.

What joy compares with that of a bird that has just learned she can fly?

What is heroic is not making life any harder than it has to be.

Nothing can come of nothing. There is no room in my world for nothing.

The self is a mere abstraction. To be whole, a complete human being, I have no need to know who I am.

Amusing oneself is not only more pleasant than thinking, it is also more profound.

The same imagination which has produced great works of science and literature has also produced all the absurdities of mythology and religion.

Enjoying nonsense is one of life's primal pleasures.

Forgetting is basic. Essential. To forget is to be free.

The conservative puts his faith in yesterday but yesterday never comes.

Terrible dreams, wonderful life.