It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

If you are someone who dislikes, condemns and rejects new ideas, you aren’t fit to lead.

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

People don't do me much good.

I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.

The way that I like to fight is I like to paint myself into a corner and so the only way is for me to win.

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

I'm extremely busy and running around requires a lot of energy.