When we get older—when the steel door slams shut, in one way or another—we know that real suffering is measured by what’s taken away from us.
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.