If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.