Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

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

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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

Dare to risk public criticism.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

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