"It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them."

"Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."

"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."

"That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting."

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

"Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it."

"At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote."

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there."

"The mere sense of living is joy enough."

"The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do."