Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

Never trust a man who reads only one book.

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

Everyone gets the devil he deserves.

You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

When we speak of the morrow nothing is ever certain.

The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

I remember those days right after I graduated from college. All I had to do was wake up in the morning and think about writing songs. It's not like that anymore, needless to say.

He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature.

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.

If you know that a thing is unrighteous, then use all dispatch in putting an end to it--why wait till next year?

Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

A lot of the music, and especially rap, I don't understand.