Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

A mafia could never kill an alliance. That’s how you become safe from the enemy, you befriend them.

I have an excuse, actually, why I've been drinking so much. I haven't said this out loud yet - this is exciting - I'm drinking for two. Thank you, wow. I mean, just for now. Somebody's being evicted.

Nothing I like to do pays well.

We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.

Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work.

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves.