The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

Happy thou art not for what thou hast not still thou striv'est to get and what thou hast forget'est.

Whenever you don't have a good game, whether you're a starter, reliever, whatever, you definitely want to get out there again as soon as you can.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?

If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.

A lover's quarrel is always about every quarrel you ever had.

I would rather live in a country where children are protected and their predators prosecuted, and even (which in Hollywood is evidently not always the same thing) disapproved of.

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses.

To learn anything fast and effectively, you have to see it, hear it and feel it.