It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.

Alan Moore is a prophetic writer.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

I think everyone still thinks I'm 13.

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

Finally Germany's attack on Russia seemed to confirm that Russia was not shirking and was prepared to carry out a foreign policy with the risk of war with Germany.

To be able to have an effect on someone's life is extraordinary .

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.

Don't uncork what you can't contain