How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

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.

Nothing is black or white.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

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

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.