. . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

The development of Nikola Tesla's ideas by corporate governments has created a sick and dangerous world.

Love is as irrational as hate and just as unpredictable.

When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.

Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

There are two types of people in the world: those who think everyone needs therapy, and those who have never been.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.