You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

The future is the shape of things to come.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.

Certain signs precede certain events.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.