A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Where there is hope there is life.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

Science is the process of obscuring the marvelous with explanations.

Choose your friends carefully but don’t worry about your enemies, they will choose you

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

What is matter? Never mind.

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have to eliminate the possibility of dying quickly.

["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.