"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."

"Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser."

"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."

"To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence."

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution."

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."

"I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it."

"Your happiness is defined by what makes your spirit sing."

"As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained."

"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made."