[On Ian Fleming:] The trouble with Ian is that he gets off with women because he can't get on with them.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

Convention is another name for the habits of society.

One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.

Holidays, if you enjoy them, have no history.

The novel will never die, but it will keep changing and evolving and taking different shapes.

One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Most likely, your issue, is that NO ONE has REALLY been there for YOU in YOUR life.

We dare travel to the sacred land.

Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

Women who love only women may have a good point.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

The astrologers would tell that the U.S. is ruled by fire and Canada is ruled by water. Short version: You pep us up, we cool you down.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.