Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.

Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

People who understand everything get no stories.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Grub first, then ethics.

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude and peace.

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.