A place for everything, and everything in its place.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.