The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning.

I got born in the wrong family.

A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.

I am an idle devil. But at least I work at it.

There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve.

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

...you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...

He was a boy, she was a girl, Can I make it any more obvious? He was a punk, she did ballet, What more can I say? He wanted her, she'd never tell, But secretly she wanted him as well.

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

When our dreams seem to go sour or remain unfulfilled, hopelessness can dominate our lives-or we can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.