“Who is to say that pleasure is useless?”
“Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery. ”
“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”
“Who knew Lenny was an encyclopedia for useless information?”
“Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?”
“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”