...quantity is not necessarily synonymous with quality and brilliant ideas are not a function of the number of titles printed.

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls.

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.

There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves.

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.

People should be more concerned with the return of their principal than the return on their principal.