Customs, morals--is there a difference?

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Sometimes you will bleed if you want to lead.

It was almost painful to be different.

The unknown is just as unknown as the ability to discover the known inside it.

New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp and colorless.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.

And Damon Hill is following Damon Hill.

I don't think you should limit what you read.

When we talk about GOD, we’re like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.