When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The day s*** is worth money, poor people will be born without an a**hole.[El día en que la mierda tenga algún valor los pobres nacerán sin culo.]
You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.
Sometimes there’s no harm in postponing your work until later.[translation by Richard Howard]Sometimes there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.[translation by Katherine Woods][Il est quelquefois sans inconvénient de remettre à plus tard son travail.]
Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying “End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,” the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
