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

"Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse."

"I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain."

"Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?"

"Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world."

"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."

"The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe."

"Courage is saying, 'Maybe what I'm doing isn't working; maybe I should try something else.'"

"When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man."

"Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate."

"A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do."

"She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."