When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

The only stirrups I like are on a saddle.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

The American people have come to rely on the government for their security. They will find out how incompetent the government is when they no longer have security.

In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.

If you create great content, huzzah. But if it doesn't move anywhere, you're not succeeding.

I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse.