"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."
"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."