As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don’t spend quality time with them and you don’t pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn’t matter that they’re just around you.

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

I don’t really see the point in washing your hair. If you don’t care if your hair’s clean or not then why would you wash it?

Sex is one of the most wholesome, beautiful and natural experiences that money can buy

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Powerful states have quite typically considered themselves to be exceptionally magnificent and the United States is no exception to that. The basis for it is not very substantial, to put it politely.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

Wear none of thine own Chains; but keep free, whilst thou art free.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

I look up at the universe and ask, ‘What are you trying to teach me here?’ I know I won’t hear a reply, but asking the question, makes me begin looking for the answer.

She was always a little crazy, which is why I understand her so well.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.

It’s a sport to me. I never want to get too complacent with my writing or my flow.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Getting up and moving forward is a choice.