The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon

A noble journey through the travails of time calls for a person to disregard conventional social, cultural, and moral contexts and strive to cleave a personal meaning that guides their existence.

Life is short, the art long.

I want to build a team that's invincible, so that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us.

I sort of don't believe in trends. I know that they exist, but what is important at the end of the day is to remain independent

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too farfetched.

I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?

Know what you're doing, love what you're doing, and believe in what you're doing.