Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

the possession of power brings on madness.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

The secret is not to make your music louder. But to make the world quieter.

Silence free the mind from its verbal cage.

War of words. We are influenced by the western media. But is what we hear the truth or just PR campaigns for governments?

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

Large-scale change is grounded in small steps toward a big idea

You will always be left with how you feel about other people, if you don't just take in the way you think and tell them how you feel about them.

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.

Hopefully people will be reinventing comedy forever and ever. This is just what I do, and it's a type of comedy.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.