If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

So many people think that practicing an art is a good way to make a living. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend.

The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.