It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere, or landing on the moon. First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, or a Roosevelt can feel himself to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, or a Blake. Understanding is forever unattainable.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

All new news is old news happening to new people

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.