...all cynicism masks a failure to cope.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Some people might say that I think too highly of you just because I worship the water you walk on.

No putt is too short to be despised.

I'm a professional comic. Whether you think I'm funny or not, that's, again, subjective.

One day I'd like to beat you at your own game, but your game is badmitton so that will probably never happen.

Soon there will be nothing truly profound that is not achieved by everyone, and of the difficult things in this world only one will be left: simplicity.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

Ramadan makes you closer to God.

And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.