“There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.”

“I count it as an absolute certainty that in paradise, everyone naps. A nap is a perfect pleasure and it's useful, too. It splits the day into two halves, making each half more manageable and enjoyable. How much easier it is to work in the morning if we know we have a nap to look forward to after lunch; and how much more pleasant the late afternoon and evening become after a little sleep. If you know there is a nap to come later in the day, then you can banish forever that terrible sense of doom one feels at 9 A.M. with eight hours of straight toil ahead. Not only that, but a nap can offer a glimpse into a twilight nether world where gods play and dreams happen.”

“In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.”

“It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .”

“We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.”

“Being safe is fiction.”

“Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.”