Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

The Lords of Chaos are the enemies of Logic, the jugglers of Truth, the molders of Beauty

Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

It is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives —the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods.

Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal

Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.

Do," said Louisa finally, "whatever you can't not do.

Truth crushed to earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.

No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.

That whole shoulder length hair thing is a thing!

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.