Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.

I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

Paganism is the default of most children, since they excel at magical thinking.

No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.

Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

We can’t talk about mass incarceration at this point without talking about women.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.