“What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.”

“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.”

“Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.”

“The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.”

“Life's a dog and then you die? No no. Life is a joyous dance through daffodils beneath cerulean blue skies and then, then what? I forget what happens next."-A Fool's Progress”

“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”

“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.”