God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

There is no gambling like politics.

Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‚convulsions of nature,‘ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I love nerdy, cute, quirky boys who don’t take themselves too seriously.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

I want to be remembered as iconic and different.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a good thing, creatively, and for food especially. That is easily a city’s biggest strength, and it is Toronto’s unique strength.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Gospel music is never pessimistic, it’s never ‚oh my god, its all going down the tubes‘, like the blues often is.

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.