"Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty."

"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

"It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top."

"A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never."

"My idea of fast food is a mallard."

"I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it."

"Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe."

"Only in your imagination can you revise."