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

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

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

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

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

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

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

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.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

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

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

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

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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.

We’re in very bad trouble if we don’t understand the planet we’re trying to save.

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

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Music is like film to me.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

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.

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?

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

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

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

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

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

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

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

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

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.

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old.

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.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

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.

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

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

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

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

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

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

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.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

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

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

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

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.