The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

‎"The days are hot and the dead lie unburied. We cannot fetch them all in, if we did we should not know what to do with them. The shells will bury them...

What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

I'm at the point in my life when I'm ready to have a baby. Something real in a crazy world.

McMahon 3:16 says 'I just pissed my pants!'

In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in danger.