Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them

The witch hunter could not date the witch.

On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.

The average man. The emergence of the concept.

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes.

I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.

I love to be sore and when I feel sore I train even harder.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.