We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

Yet we were rescued by that fancy, and saved by a myth.