Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

Lovers should also have their days off.

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

Love is wanting others to be happy.

New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

When you're directing, you're right at the coal face, always exhausted, often emotional - and I'll enjoy being a couple of steps back from that and simply helping where I can.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watch you!