There might be very primitive life in our solar system—single-cell animals, that sort of thing.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

The best thing about living at the beach is that you only have assholes on three sides of you.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.