A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.

Science explains the world, but only Art can reconcile us to it.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.

Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.

You either LIVE or you THINK!

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

Real love is strange and changeable… but also somehow constant.