Selected Quotes

"Active Chess? What does that make me, the Passive World Champion? "

"There is only enough time to iron your cape, then back to the sky for you. "

"I put forth an amendment that outlaws the depositing of sperm anywhere other than in a woman‘s vagina. "

"Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. "

"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to liberty "

"The edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people that really know where it is are the ones that have gone over. "

"I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time. "

"No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun - for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax - This won't hurt "

"After your unfortunate experience with what you unkindly called tyranny, you Americans created a system which was designed, as I understand, not to work. "

"Nancy Reagan to Miles Davis, a guest at a White House dinner: “What have you done go get invited to a White House dinner”?
“I‘ve changed the course of music five or six times. What have you done but sleep with the President?“ "

"Mormanism it seems to me, objectively is just a little bit more idiotic than Christianity is. It has to be. It is Christianity plus some very stupid ideas. "

"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. "

"Q: If God does not exist, what then is the purpose of life? A: Well, I can only answer for myself. What cheers me up? I suppose mainly gloating over the misfortunes of other people. Yes, I guess that has to be it. Mainly, crowing over the misery of others. It doesn‘t always work, but it never completely fails. And then there’s irony. Sex can have diminishing returns, but it’s amazing. No, that‘s pretty much it. Then it’s clear onto the grave. "

"Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. "

"So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for. "

"“They‘re all idiots.“ “They‘ve been Knighted.“ “That makes it official then.“ "

"Anyway, she gave us a good tour and we saw this tabernacle here and this here and so on and then at one point she said, “I just want to tell you a little about the church of the Latter Day Saints.” And we all politely stood and then she said how in the afterlife all families will be reunited. You‘ll be with your families forever, so I put my hand up and said, “What happens if you‘ve been good?” And she said, “Could you leave please?” "

"De gustibus non est disputandum; In matters of taste, there can be no disputes "

"My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered humanity does not want to be served. On the contrary, it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases Jubal Harshaw "

"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy — in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other "

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. "

"The great chess grandmaster Alexander Alekhine was once asked by a playful interviewer whether he preferred the queen on the board or on the bed. ""It depends,"" he replied, ""on the position."" "

"Talk about something else that‘s falling from the sky and that is an asteroid. What‘s coming our way? Is this an effect of, perhaps, of global warming or is this just some meteoric occasion? "

"When I signed the bill, I included a statement with the admonition that “enactment of this legislation should not, despite the fierce and at times divisive rhetoric surrounding it, be understood to provide an excuse for discrimination.“ Reading those words today, I know now that, even worse than providing an excuse for discrimination, the law is itself discriminatory. It should be overturned. "

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. "