The only thing sadder than divorce is a failed marriage that does not end.

All the different varieties of alcohol are just a charade to make you think you're cultured instead of addicted.

If you need sleeping pills to sleep, caffeine to stay awake, alcohol to have fun and television to be amused, do you really exist at all?

As a rule, Paradise turns into Hell as soon as you move there.

Do not assume a person who is successful in one area has any skills in another. Often that success came at the cost of everything else.

Perseverance is important at times, but let us not forget the essential art of strategic retreat.

The most valuable superpower isn't seeing through walls but accurately perceiving what's right in front of you.

Smart people: "I made a mistake. How can I change?" Stupid people: "A mistake was made. Who can I blame?"

One of the prerequisites of wisdom is recognizing what an idiot you have been.

Nearly all rejections are blessings in disguise.

Religion is the refuge of the narcissist. There's no better support for your specialness than thinking God knows you personally.

Intelligence is the ability to separate emotions from facts.

There is no such thing as "safety". The most you can hope for is a balance of risks.

The standard adult behavior pattern is to repeat the same activities over and over unless disaster forces a change.

Most people are poor autodidacts because they find any excuse to delay learning. A true self-learner does it now!

Intelligence is not a quality of the brain but a personal decision to follow reason over convenience.

Sex is a delusional system that leads you to believe you are compatible with someone you would have nothing to do with otherwise.

Human evolution has not ended. It has simply bifurcated, with smart lineages getting smarter and dumb ones getting dumber.

To a dog, there are no bad smells, only information.

"The emperor has no clothes!" cried the boy, at which point the secret police took him away and he was never heard from again.