With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.

If coffee didn't exist, somebody would have to invent it for me very soon.

The entire universe will eventually disintegrate but by then I hope to be in a safer place.

My first line of defense against reality is called sleep.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

Be a good neighbor, and leave me alone.

One problem I have definitely solved is the problem of not having enough to worry about.