“I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.”

“Kaizen is everyday improvement, everybody improvement, everywhere improvement.”

“Breton's Surrealists wanted to place themselves outside. What is it what they want to put outside? Pure thought. That is, the only metaphysical world, reflection. But from a materialistic standpoint thought is a reflection of matter — as in a mirror. The metaphysical world is not able to surmount the material world which produces it. One has to think of SOMETHING. But for thought to be dialectical, it's object / it's "thing" must cease to be attached to everyday life.”

“I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”

“I am assuming that God exists and I am glad that there is no way to prove this. [Because] I would run through the proof once, and then I'd forget it, and I would never speculate about spiritual things and mysteries otherwise. And, I think, my life would be very incomplete.”

“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”

“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.”

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”

“See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”

“Once you had read the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, you knew that everyday life was psychopathology.”