Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.

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.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.

I expect from our judges that their verdicts are also inspired by Talmudic law - and not only by common law or European justice systems.

Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

If the poet can no longer speak for society, but only for himself, then we are at the last ditch.

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

We are living through an epochal shift. If we aren't careful, the elementary foundations of our pluralistic democracy will be threatened.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

I must confess that I'm not a great reader. At the moment I'm reading my son's 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King and I've got a plant catalogue on the go.