If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

When one finds oneself in the kind of strange, unsettling circumstances as I presently find myself, it is only natural, after all, to have a few, unusual, vivid dreams.

Saying 'I don’t know' is one of the most powerful things you can say because it creates the potential to find out.

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

I could not love thee dear so much Loved I not honour more.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

I am asking of no man more than I myself was ready throughout four years to do

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

I don't think vengeance is much good.

I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.