As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

I think I am slowly becoming an anarchist, that this is only another label for my privateness, and I think that you will understand this in the sense of being against collectivity.

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

I do not have any trust fund, I have always trusted God for all my funds.

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

America is a post-Christian nation only in the sense that we have built a tenement on the foundation of a palace.

I grew up in a funny way.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness.

I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.