Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'.

Cats, Dog considered, were clearly a lot tougher than lost souls.

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

I like to be in the now, now. Sometimes musicians have to wait for me to be genuine with it. As an actor, I don't have that luxury. You have to make it legit when they say 'action.'

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.