Cognition reigns but does not rule.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically.

Pain strengthens and failure teaches us the proper way to do things.

I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.

Yeah Jesus could turn water in to wine, but he didn't share. Douche.

Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.

I needed to address that I've had some profound moral shifts in my own life.

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

The idea of Marilyn Manson has been brewing in my head, one form or another, since I was about 12 years old at a Christian high school in Canton, Ohio.

We ain't goin' study war no more.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.