If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.

The more open we are, the more we can learn. The more we learn, the more we recognize that every one of us is a hero

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I think my liver is diseased. Then again, I don't know a thing about my illness; I'm not even sure what hurts.

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.

In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.

Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us...She had an ear for talent...the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

We only have this one moment: NOW.