Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?

He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than I do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. But I don't much like the practice. I think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.