We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same.

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

The longer the title, the less important the job.

Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

What's normal to you is normal to you.