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

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.

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.

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit.

Shit works out.

Be on your guard against the Pride that repels advice, resents reproof, and refuses to own a fault.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Hold your eyes on God and leave the doing to him. That is all the doing you have to worry about.

If he wins a fourth Super Bowl, he's the greatest ever in my book.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

Nobody took me too seriously but I was grown up even as a baby.

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

Time management is the mantra of my life.

At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.