If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is – in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Helping other people is a drug so dangerous that there is no cure short of total abstention.

It is interesting to note that everyone has a different take on the world, a different opinion, and given the same inputs have completely different outputs.

The body, then, has a mind of its own. It must follow, then, that the Mind has a body of its own, even if it’s like nothing that we can see around us, or have ever seen.

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

A word of advice. If, as a young man, student, you are tormented by a desire for women, it is best to get out into the fresh air as much as possible.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

It's your eyes, I think. They promise something kind. Heaven help the world should you ever turn dark. You would send Satan himself scrambling.

All human beings wield influence—a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care.

A heart that can break is better than no heart at all.

'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way and he is only honest who is not discovered.

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey.

I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but its not all I want to do-be a professional liar for the rest of my life.

"Do you have the talent?" is rarely the question. "Do you have the guts to finish?" is the real question.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.