I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

You're a Good Little Slave

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Few things worth having can be got easily.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

Art is the medicine for the soul.

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

Democracy is in conflict with individual freedom.

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.

It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it

Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.