In conversation we are like prisoners passing notes to each other.

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We are here for the ride.
The roller coaster left with the station some time ago.

The high school students do not care about lifelong learning.
They care more about daylong not-learning.

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Unclench the mind.

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Time is the Häagen-Dazs of dimensions.

Books are beer for the mind.

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You news you lose.

Enjoying life is like getting high on life.
It is avoiding reality.

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Is the division between deep and shallow, deep or shallow?

Say it don’t pray it.

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We dream to let us know we are asleep.

“Don’t love me for my music,” said Mozart, “Love me for myself.”

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What makes us think that love is the answer?
Our hearts.

In spite of the fact that no one knows the future, we think it completely self-evident that education should prepare us for success in the future.

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In school, the kids are learning a lot about educational bureaucracy.

Put your mouth into it.

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Is the glass full or the glass empty?
It’s hard to tell — it’s full of water.

Museums are the restrooms of the mind.

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In abstract expressionism the emotions are mine.

You’re damned if you know and you’re damned if you don’t know.

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I won’t listen to the truth from just anybody.

Nature isn’t what it used to be.

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For most of history, the proper answer to the question say of why the sun rises is “I don’t know.”

Animals are not politically correct.
Animals are violence.

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Going to school is like: how many fingers am I holding up?
But I hold them up fast.

I lovingly place the world into complex custom-made pigeon holes.

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It is the distractions from life that make life worth living.

Books: plastic brain surgery.

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Part of our definition of a wise man (a sage, a philosopher, a mystic, religious leader) is that we do not fully understand him.

I can’t discover who I think I am.

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A man needs his delusions.

I won’t listen to the truth from just anybody.

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We dress to attract yet we behave to avoid.

I like life best in songs.

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The price of happiness — is unhappiness.

Grow-up?
Turn on the news, you’ll see what grown-ups are like.

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We live in a world of untested ideas.

"Am I the only one here pretending to work?"

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What is a good metaphor for a metaphor?

Stop thinking!
It’s such a turn off.

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You can’t buy happiness.
You have to make it yourself,
out of the things you find along the way.

The failure of philosophy is fundamental to a pluralistic society.

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Philosophy is a mind-field.

I can’t discover who I think I am.

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After living with three wives, I am finally “spousebroken.”

It may be a matter of politeness to not understand the world.

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It is the distractions from life that make life worth living.

Without women, the world is just a big set of Cartesian coordinates.

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You’re never too old to pretend you’re still young.