I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

I am not now That which I have been.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.