The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

I love Punk music because it doesn't offer solutions - It just takes the problem and makes it louder.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.