I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

Children notice things first, people later.

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.