We all know that scientific words need an obscure classical origin to make them sound impressvie to those who wouldn't know an idiopathic craniofacial erythema if it hit them in the face.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.

Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.

Reality changes words far more than words can ever change reality.

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

It is much harder than you might think to show people your bottom.

A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.

The glamour's off. Almost any question you ask can be answered. It's only the questions that you didn't know to ask that remain, dancing the can-can behind your back. The unknown unknowns.

I had to go outside. I had to let the element of chance in.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

It is my assessment that most police officers who spend their days driving around USA cities will have some levelof radiation sickness and this is concerning!

If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

There is already too much truth in the world - an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!

I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.

You should be dynamic, and still be soft in the heart. You should stand against injustice and simultaneously, be compassionate within you, like a saint. Be a saint and a soldier, together

It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

One of the proudest things for me with this film [The Fourth Phase] is that year after year we put ourselves right out there making it and no one got seriously injured.

For there was never yet philosoper That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made a push at chance and sufferance.