The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.

Have a scaffold erected in the square. We shall hang a traitor or two before dinner. And perhaps afterwards as well.” - Princess Karena

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

There are no 'come shoot me' clothes.

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

Defending yesterday is far more risky than making tomorrow.

The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.