Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

Fiction with its big question of 'what if?' is one of the most powerful forces in the world. Once upon a time, the ability to light a fire was fictitious.

Heartbreak is the best motivation.

Fear never shows up and the party ends early.

I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.

I'm a child of the '60s, so I love the fact that we are returning to a time when artists are standing up.

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.