I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

Kindness suits you.""Really? I think I'm quite allergic to it.

The pursuit of truth, not of facts, is the business of fiction.

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

I say, when you tell the truth, you never offend nobody, particularly if you do it with dignity.

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.