Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

Nature had squandered an unreasonable quantity of male beauty on this undeserving creature.

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

To possess possessions, a man will "sell himself" to have what another has, but it never dawns on him ~ that the more he gets, the less he keeps of himself.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

I want a serious girlfriend. Somebody I can love, that's gonna love me back. Is that psycho?

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

How happy you are depends to a very large degree on your relationships with other people.