He knew that the dread in these men’s minds was not of the fact, but of his naming it—as if the fact had not existed, but his words held the power to make it exist.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

The thing I write will be the thing I write.

Act like you have a lot of venom inside you, but never inject them into anyone.

That's a very admirable quality in a wife. The ability to admit she is in the wrong.

Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not I publish the poems.

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.