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

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.

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.

We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.

You can not hide on an island and expect that water will not find you.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

The state of man's mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it

I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.

I know. And that's what took me so long

As thou directest the power, harm or advantage will follow, and the torrent that swept the valley may be led to turn a mill.

Until you appreciate something crucial - It is incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who counts as an Us, who as a Them.

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.