I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away.

In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.

Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see