It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

I am not sure if women are attracted to genius. Can you imagine the wise wizard winning the woman over the gallant swordsman? It seems rather otherworldly in more ways than one.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks.

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.