An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Change forced by others is difficult to accept. And too rapid a change causes instability.

I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's Day. I'm lucky sevens.

You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

God has never given anybody a dream that He did not want that person to fulfill.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

Creativity requires quite a lot of faith - not just in yourself but also in the knowledge that you have the right to proceed, even when you may not know exactly what you're doing.