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

Genius is sorrow's child.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

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

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

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

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.