bons mots

God is a comedian playing an audience too afraid to laugh.

—Voltaire 

I believe God watches over every testicle, even those that sometimes, 
quite involuntarily, stray from the herd.

—Kinky Friedman (in Roadkill)

I can't stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from
one smoke filled room to another.

—Peter O’Toole

The cause of the worldwide consumption of hashish, opium, wine, and
tobacco lies not in the taste, nor in any pleasure, recreation, or mirth
they afford, but simply in man’s need to hide from himself the demands
of conscience.... For man is a spiritual as well as animal being. He may
be moved by things that influence his spiritual nature, or by things
that influence his animal nature.

—From Leo Tolstoy’s "Why Do Men Stupefy Themselves?"

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