We tear ourselves inside out for something the world may love, then base our worth on that.

In hard times, beauty can seem frivolous - but take it away, and all you're left with is hard times.

Our job is to translate the lies, deceit, and anxiety that poisons our cultural water supply into an understandable form that we can digest.

We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

[H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.