“Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways.”

“Don't take life too seriously. After all none of us are getting out alive anyway.”

“Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.”

“My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”

“Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceries, get a haircut, do one's work; get on with the business of one's life.

That's the hope, anyway.”

“You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”

“Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.”

“Why are Republicans older than Democrats? Because it takes awhile for life to beat the stupid out of you, that's why.”

“Some of you are probably thinking that you may panic and run. You will not! Others are worried about dying. Some of you will. But all men die. No one ever gets out of this life alive.”