“There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.”

“The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.”

“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally importan...”

“We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.”

“Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves and other animals.”

“Plagiarism is the fear of a blank page.”

“Writing poetry is like having sex with the universe and the language is just a condom.”

“Speaking of which, about assuming you had a condomI just meant that you, with your experience, would be prepared for responsible sex, even if it were on the fly. An intelligent man is prepared for ...”

“Culture is a fibreglass condom suit - highly restrictive, uncomfortable and itchy as hell.”

“You think I can't get it up anymore, maybe? Lemme tell you, you eat enough garlic and it stands up every time.”

“Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.”

“But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.”

“Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”