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.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

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

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

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.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

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

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.