“Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.”

“Anything too stupid to be said is sung.”

“If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it’s boring, try it for four. If you still think it’s boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you’ll find that it’s…

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“The purpose of life is to fight maturity.”

“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”

“It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”

“Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.”

“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”