When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.
Comedy is acting out optimism.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
Common sense is not so common.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Ah just act the way ah feel.
Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.