The confusion of “watching TV” with “doing something” has insidiously lulled the majority of modern civilized people into a state of waking death.

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“If the thought of death causes you to hold on to life too dearly, then maybe you’re not living. You are in fact already dead.”

— Andy Prickett

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“I never see a ledge without wondering what it would be like to jump off of it.”

— Andy Prickett

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“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

— Japanese Proverb

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“Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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“When you get to be my age, you are forced to realize that where you have been investing your time is where you will end up being. No matter what your dreams are or were. Start being now where you wanna be then.”

— Andy Prickett

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“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”

— Oscar Wilde

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“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

— Charles Bukowski

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“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”

— Henry Winkler

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“He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.”

— Confucius

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“Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.”

— Alfred Hitchcock

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“The easiest person to deceive is one’s self.”

— Edward Bulwer Lytton

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“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”

— James Thurber

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