“... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]”
“One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness”
“Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.”
“If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.”
“These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.”
“Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?”