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.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

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.

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

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

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

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

There is no gambling like politics.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

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

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

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

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It’s not like Egypt, where you’re going to get murdered by the security forces.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

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

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

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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

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.

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

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn’t the only video service, but I think it’s the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that’s a completely different kind of content.

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.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

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

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

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on 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.

As a British driver, you get compared to Lewis and I get that. But when he came to McLaren, they were doing well and had a championship-winning car. I’m in a very different situation so I don’t compare myself to his stats.

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.

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.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

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

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

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

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 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.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

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

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

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