It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

People are who they are and, try as you might, you cannot make them be what you want them to be.

Instead of asking why they left, now I ask, what beauty will I createin the space the no longeroccupy?

I'm a Polaroid developing in reverse

Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.

I'd rather die on my feet making a speech than die of Alzheimer's - and that's what I'm planning to do.

There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man.