When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.

I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.

There may be honor among thieves, but there's none in politicians.

The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

I will not be an ordinary man, because I have a right to be extraordinary.

I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.

Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness – dangerous, beautiful darkness.

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

Get rid of this bunkum about the 'carnal Christian'. Forget it! If you're carnal, you're not saved.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.