Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.

I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife

Between the Pope and air conditioning, I'd choose air conditioning.

Me and nature are two.

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.

And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up.