In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

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.

Do not let your heart be troubled, trust in God.

I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

And lips say “God be pitiful,” Who ne'er said “God be praised.”

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

I loved something I made up

I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.