But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.

People tell you to have a safe trip, as if you have some control over it.

The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala.