To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.