“Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest – then we can all die laughing.”

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

I guess if people couldn’t profit from war I don’t think there would be war.

What if it’s boring – or if it’s not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.

Exercise is for people who can’t handle drugs or alcohol.

If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?

The larger picture is really to swing people’s awareness of what really is moral.

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

There’s nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, ‘I didn’t do it right’.

It’s a more ridiculing, divisive humor today.

Does your mind feel more and more like teflon? Nothing sticks to it?

You are what you think, geez, that’s frightening.

My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

If you can’t be direct, why be?

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.

I feel sad that he’s just a voice now.

If i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.