Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

In the 40, 000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

A cold word from a cold man sends shivers throughout my body but my heart remains warm

New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

I'm glad for the equaled record. However, the final numbers really count.

God cares more about your obedience to His Spirit's leading TODAY than what you will do next year.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place.

The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.

Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.

I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will last it's time, whatever time that is.