Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

Mark Twain

The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

Michael de Montaigne

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 3.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

John Burroughs

There's a fine line between fishing, and standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright

You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves.p.32

Stephen Elliott

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Bret Harte

Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.

Gilda Radner

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Tim Berners-Lee

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

Henry David Thoreau

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

Matt Stone