Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

The notion that one can liberate another soul from captivity is an illusion of the very young.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best.

For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.