The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone.

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed.

I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them.

No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .

The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.

Liberation means no rebirth. Now, does that mean you don't reincarnate? Well, you never did reincarnate.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.

Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore?

Eve-"In the name of all that is holy...It's 2060, not 1760. Can't they figure out a better way to handle this process?" Roarke-"Amen