The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

I'd do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don't realize that now, but you will.

I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat.

The police stopped me when I was out in my car. They told me it was a spot check. I admitted to two pimples and a boil.

The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

Why do so many Christians pray such tiny prayers when their God is so big?