Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Master, take me in along with these people." Jesus answered and said, "Your star has led you astray, Judas.

YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

The band? No way! There ain't no band. The band is not 'the band' right now. It's just three guys.

I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Formulate a specific game plan... the specific steps in making your intention come to life.

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quite football.