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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

I do like taking stuff seriously that a lot of people look at as nonsense. I enjoy the insanity of that. And I like the commitment that is needed for that.

There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

I would hardly say that I have a rich knowledge of anything in particular, but I do seem to be burdened with an unseemly appetite for intellectual and artistic erudition, which, for the sake of balance, I keep well harnessed to a reliable sense of the absurd.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.