Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.

Believing and investing in yourself is the best way to shift your thinking from a paradigm of excuses to one of solutions.

Now I knew that if that's how the devil looks, I wanted to go straight to hell.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I like storms. I like thunder and lightning. What I do during a storm is shag my girlfriend and pretend that we're taking part in the conception of the Antichrist.

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.

The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.