A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?
Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.