So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

As a general rule, I am opposed to tax dollars being used for – well, damn near anything, barring mail delivery, law enforcement, and heavy artillery.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field.

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

I've spent the last year and a half going through a very public separation, hiding in hotel lobbies.

He who despises life is his life's master.