How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.

I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.

I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager.

The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

I would love to do a film in Africa.

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

Everything looks like a failure in the middle. In neary every change project, doubt is cast on the original vision because problems are mounting and the end is nowhere in sight.