Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

It's never too early to give your best friend some moral support

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.

All these feelings that you get before you fight or when you're fighting or training for a fight, it makes me feel alive, and I love that feeling.

Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.

You should never tell someone they have a nice dimple, because maybe they were shot in the face with a BB gun.

I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.