Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.

I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them.

Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale yellow balloon letting it go watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky.

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

I'd like to thank ma da (dad)... my mum for doin' aw ma washin'

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

There is no jollitie but hath a smack of folly. [There is no jollity but hath a smack of folly.]

I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I'll Get It Myself)

I write to please myself.

A prime function of a leader is to keep hope alive.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.