I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.

To get rid of complexes and consequently, to finding a more conscious and harmonious life is to see and understand where these distortions occurs in our lives

The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

No compression or as little as possible - that's how you get a good recording.

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

Princes of courtesy, merciful, proud and strong.

I wouldn't mind doing Playboy again. But only if I had creative control.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

Abercrombie is only interested in people with washboard stomachs who look like they're about to jump on a surfboard.

The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.

You've got to take risks if you want to find love.