“The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.”

“A lot of people were mistaken about a lot of things.”

“Life is hard. Life hurts. So what? You tough it out. You get through and then you'll feel good again.”

“Life is simple. You're the one making things complex.”

“Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.”

“I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being stripped, the toxic-waste dumps, the merry plunder of mankind added to the drought and the famine that nature dishes up annually as a matter of course. It's hard to know what's actually going to get us first. Sometimes I think we should just blow the whole planet and get it over with. It's the suspense that's killing me.”

“It's pitiful to have a life in which junk food is awarded the same high status as sex.”