“Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.”

Don’t count your boobies until they are hatched.

The unicorn is a mythical beast.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Americans want to go to heaven without dying.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.

If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing’s fun. You’re getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

For one thing, she pronounced flowers ‘flars’ and I couldn’t let it slide.

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.

Let the meek inherit the earth — they have it coming to them.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

A lot of people are confused by “hello.” A lot of people are confused by a lot of things they shouldn’t be confused by.

Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it.

Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to ‘the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.’

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

There’s simply too much fuss about myself.

Don’t confuse meaning with truth.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.