A ‘normal person’ is what is left after society has squeezed out all unconventional opinions and aspirations out of a human being.
The worst feeling in life is not being lonely; it's being forgotten by the one person you could never forget.
I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.
If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.
If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.
I don't know, 53 years with the same human being? I can't be around myself for more than three or four hours before I want to kill everybody.
In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being.
In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.
Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.
I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
Every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration. Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought.
Being in The Fall isn't like being in another group. It isn't a holiday. A lot of musicians are really hard to deal with. They aren't as smart as me.
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
As far as being a deliveryman is concerned, I see nothing wrong with being a delivery man. You know, black or white or Hispanic or Chinese or whatever, you know? It's a job.
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
Any conversation which does not include the context of the journey of the heart is by definition untrue to who we are as human beings.
