Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...

There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

Don't laugh at the voice of the stars. They are far away, their rays are light and pale, and we can barely see their sleeping shadows, but their sorcery is stern and dark.

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.