There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

Media is so influenceable, yet so influent. Whoever controls the media controls the society, and its opinion.

Courts in America seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a statement and do what's right.

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

You never reach the promised land. You can march towards it

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.

If you miss one day in physics, that's it.

People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.