Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Books and school are great for learning but there is no substitute for life and living to provide a real education.

To automatically be promoted from one class to another without any serious self- discipline, and self- improvement is a cheap life.

the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings

I can memorize great swathes of dialogue!

You never forget how to dance. It's just a matter of your bones working and things like that.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.