To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.

It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture

One of the biggest limitations on consoles is the amount of memory available to the game.

Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.

If Atheists are lonely and downtrodden, we have only ourselves to blame. Numerically, we are strong. Let's start punching our weight.

April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.