Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the goofy genius of Taoist masters than it is to, say, the satirical gibes on Saturday Night Live. It has both a literary and a metaphysical function.

You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.

Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)