The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

It is not by believing but by doubting that one can attain to the truth, which is ever changing form and condition.

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!

I remember when you could get a good, virgin meal for half the price.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

It's so great as an actor to get the opportunity to do something that's incredibly truthful.

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.

Politics is a continuation of economics by other means

You know, my first album, some of those jokes I'd done for twelve years because I couldn't throw 'em out.

For a woman the objective is often a committed relationship also known as the destination. For a men the road trip on the way to the destination is often the most fun.