It is a mark of genius not to astonish but to be astonished.

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.

Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Handle the little things well

The existence of God, the why of life, was all that really only a question of glands?

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Every time you write a poem it’s apocalyptic. You’re revealing who you really are to yourself.

All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.

He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself.

I write songs about what I go through.