It's not hard to marginalize people when they've already done it to themselves.

When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.

If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly...

Only an idiot would trust a Kelpie this close to the water. Getting on its back with the scent of the sea in the air would be a fast, painful means of suicide, and I'm not a fan of pain.

Humanity has always had a flair for guilt by association.

It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

There's nothing worse than being an aging young person.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?"

Being a woman is really crap.