The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Effective action is always unjust.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

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.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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

Each soul is potentially divine.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.