“Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.”

The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

“After 17” is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that’s kind of where I’m at in that part of my life.

Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.

George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition.

I’ve had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we’re truly after.

But it’s a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life.” -Damien

10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?

Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.