We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

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

Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.