If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

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

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again...

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

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

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.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.