Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.

The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.

My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.

We are taking the steps necessary to be ready to send whatever assistance is requested of us, and we are preparing to receive citizens who seek refuge in our state

My whole family was very supportive of my choice in a career. I started playing music when I was about 6 years old.

The music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, "It's too loud!"

I love to go to the doctor. Where else would a man look at me and say, 'Take off your clothes'?

Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.

"You know that it is quite preposterous of you to chase rainbows," said the sane person to the poet. "Yet it would be rather beautiful if I did one day manage to catch one," mused the poet.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.