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

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

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

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

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

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

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.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

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

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

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

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.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

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.

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

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I’d give up just about everything else for that.

Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

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

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

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.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

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

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

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

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.

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.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

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

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

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 Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

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

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

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

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

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

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

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.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

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.

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

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

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.

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

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

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

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.

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.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.