We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDEDFOR THE EXISTENCE OF GODWAS MUSIC

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?