Genius is not so much a light as it is a constant awareness of the surrounding gloom.

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.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

And let her think I don't care she's with you? No can do. She needs to know what I want

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

The recollection of one upward hour Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer The darkness of despondency, than years Of gayety and pleasure.

Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.

Sometimes you face difficulties not because you're doing something wrong, but because you're doing something right.

The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.

It may seem like a big risk to follow your dream, but isn't the greatest risk of all to miss your life?

I'm not a leading guy.

The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.