...there's not enough of anything to go around except people and death.

Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.I self-center you more than ever.

...someone ought to invent a tool, a kind of plane to shave the lies away from stories and deception away from memories. I'm a collector of shavings.

The silence leans forward.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled

Peace be upon you, for you have persevered! How excellent, then, this fulfilment in the hereafter!

Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

But we have inherited a vast number of social ills which never came from Nature. They are the complicated products of all the tinkering, muddling, and blundering of social doctors in the past.

The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.