We are most of us two people, your Highness. There is something lacking in the man who is one thing only, and so, as he believes, at peace with the world and with himself.

Tides do what tides do–they turn.

There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive.

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.

The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.

The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.