The trouble with the dead, as I see it, is they don't stay that way.

when you live outside the law, you have to be flexible

you were attacked by cement monkeys?

Do I have anything to lose? This life will be gone one day to the Creator who gave it.

It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses.

Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring. But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, ...beer is good enough for me.

Servants honor their master by their service.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

Lord, protect me from what I want!

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

It's the way the business works, you're not just an actor, you're a diplomat and a publicist and a politician, and there are certain expectations.