"There is nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl."

"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality."

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top ."

"The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak."

"The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?"

"It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal."

"See the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time."

"After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done."

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts."

"I row after health like a waterman..."

"Other people's troubles are bearable."