Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect.

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?