Christopher Quotes

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

He's acting as foolish as a kitten... but then, everyone's entitled to a little foolishness once in a while.

Cheap booze is a false economy.

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

Some people are oil and water.

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

People with power always take advantage of those without power.

Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?

What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

You have to choose your future regrets.

Disappear, she says. I love that word.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

He inclined his head ever so slightly, displaying with his bearing the supreme confidence, even arrogance, that is the sole providence of cats, dragons, and certain highborn women.

I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.

I am a vampire, and that is the truth.

His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.

The end comes to all of us...but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?

The medium obscured the message.

Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.

I didn’t look back, but I knew you were still watching. It probably sounds weird, but I could just feel it. The hairs on my neck bristled when you blinked.

Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long.

I remember the lights turning into blurs of blazing fire. I remember the air-conditioning chilling my arms. The smell of coffee smudging into the smell of eucalyptus.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

Don't bruise the Foo!

What men do matters more than what they know.

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

If there'd been an astronaut on the moon right then, I'm sure I could have seen him. Perhaps he could have looked down and seen me too... the only one who could.

The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for a long time.

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.