Knowledge is having the right answers. Intelligence is asking the right questions. Wisdom is knowing when to ask the right questions.

[About turning 40. What is your perspective on getting old? Remko, Lanaken, Belgium]

Dear Remko,

My advice to you is to grow a porn star moustache and learn the electric guitar — it worked for me — and try to hang in there until you’re sixty. Then you’ll find you don’t have to worry about what people say any more and, as a consequence, life becomes a whole lot more interesting.

Entering your sixties brings with it a warm and fuzzy feeling of freedom through redundancy, through obsolescence, through living outside of the conversation and forever existing on the wrong end of the stick. What a relief it is to be that mad, embarrassing uncle in the corner of the room, a product of his age, with his loopy ideas about free speech and freedom of expression, with his love of beauty, of humour, chaos, provocation and outrage, of conversation and debate, his adoration of art without dogma, his impatience with the morally obvious, his belief in universal compassion, forgiveness and mercy, in nuance and the shadows, in neutrality and in humanity — ah, beautiful humanity — and in God too, who he thanks for letting him, in these dementing times, be old.

Love Nick

“Whats more worthless than cartoons?” But like, “Whats more powerful than Mickey Mouse?”

La mejor forma de predecir el futuro es inventarlo.

No hay nada que dirija tan bien a los hombres en sus deliberaciones como la previsión de las consecuencias de sus acciones; la profecía es muchas veces la causa principal de los acontecimientos pronosticados.

Vigila ese tono, que sea sangre de tu sangre no significa que no te la haga escupir.