The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find'…never were any truer words spoken.

With such a great affliction, I found the grace of liberty.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

'Tis a gift to be simple 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right We will be in the valley of love and delight.

I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

God is the explanation of all things.

Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!

Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.

It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.