He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

So, basically, I have the impossible task of finding a non-smelly, drug-free virgin?

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

My life is one demd horrid grind.

Everything in the media is fleeting. Don't get the wrong idea. Fame is when you're still the hot topic next week or even the week after.

For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated.

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.