We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
Laughter is by definition healthy.
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.
Man is what he eats.
Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.