A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.

There are just some things that are outside of comprehension, even if we can quantify them. At some point, science becomes magic.

Your dreams today are answers to what you are to do, where you are to go and what you have to say in later days of your life.

...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.

The use of riches is better than their possession.

If you're missing joy and peace, you're not trusting God.

It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.