Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.