I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

Kindness is in a prison till it findsRelease in words or deeds.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

It's a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don't know the answer. I don't know what I'd do, except run away.

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

Joni Mitchell seems destined to remain in a state of permanent dissatisfaction - always knowing what she would like to do, always more depressed when it's done.

I love 40's-60's fashion because it suits the type of figure that I have the most, so that's what I always go for. I won't change!

Sometimes its good to come back when you least expect to.

Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.