Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

A chap’s impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

You can be an expert on anything if you just use logic.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much.

Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.