"It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable."

"Serendipity: Look for something, find something else, and realize what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for."

"I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman."

"Canadians are cold so much of the time that many of them leave instructions to be cremated."

"A promiscuous person is someone who is getting more sex than you are."

"Laughter is the first evidence of freedom."

"If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain."

"Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness."

"Brothers? Oh, I hate brothers. My older brother just doesn't know when to die, and my younger brothers seem to do nothing but."

"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."

"Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television."

"...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken."