Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights.