Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

Nijedna tuđa sreća nije bez pomalo sreće i za nas druge. Zato je jedna velika mudrost od tuđe sreće praviti sreću i za sebe.

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

I did not know that it was love until I knew.

The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

I would speak up if I see someone being rude to someone.

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.