A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren’t taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

What people see on court is another side of me; it’s not me.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn’t be playing football.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

When people meet me, they say that I’m really kind – contrary to a lot of my music.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.