There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

Never take liquor into the bedroom. Don't stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. Live in a nice country rather than a powerful one. Power makes everybody crazy. Get somebody to teach you to play a musical instrument.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

We're here on Earth to fart around

You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, "Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.