"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."

"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

"Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race."

"I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse."

"When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones."

"The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead."

"As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless."

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."