When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'

History is made by those who say no.

That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.

For every great thing we did, there is a very public moment of falling on our faces. But everything that came through us as a band was a distinct vision of R.E.M.

The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

I rely on a lot of green drinks to get my vegetables.