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

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

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

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

Humility is attentive patience.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.