"The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain."

"We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence."

"The question of whether there exists a Creator and Ruler of the Universe has been answered in the affirmative by some of the highest intellects that have ever existed."

"Whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?"

"There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book."

Existence is tedious, anyway.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.