"A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella."

"Everything on earth is created for a purpose, it's up to us to find out what purpose each thing serves."

"If you choose not to live in a cluster, uh, dorm..."

"Everybody should be able to make some music...That's the cosmic dance!"

"Nothing says, 'I have no idea what to get you,' quite like giant beige bath towels."

"Live simply that others might simply live."

"A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince."

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."

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

"If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?"

"The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future."

"I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane."