The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

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.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

A good liar must have a good memory.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

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.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.