Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.