Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself -- will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows -- some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history -- But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, 'This fact I can do without.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.

Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.