The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

Peeple of zee wurl, relax

Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter

When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.