Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.

If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

But optimism dribbles away when horror repeats.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.

As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.

It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you.

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

The way I deliver it is meant to be fun. Does it hurt sometimes? Yes, but it is meant to be funny not offensive.

Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.