"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can."

“I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.”

“Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee.”

“I don't like to sit still.”

“I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people.”

“You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?”

“All that peace, man, if felt so good it hurt. I want to hurt it back.”

“For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason is seen to be weak, whereas true reason is kept firm and immutable by her own powers and does not require to be confirmed by the assent of any authority.”

Source : "De Divisione Naturae", Bk. 1, ch. 69; translation by I. P. Sheldon-Williams, sited from "A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy" edited by Peter Dronke, Cambridge: CUP, (p. 2), 1988.

“I still can't get over the idea that respectable adults now go to see superhero movies and that such films get reviewed in the 'New Yorker.' Clearly, I am seriously out of step with the times.”