Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.

Murder is the apex of megalomania, the ultimate in control.

Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.

When one must sit with the snobs, one belongs with the frightened.

Flippancy may be a lance tilted in the face of fear.

Understanding why is never enough.

often when I thought I joked, I told the truth, afraid to speak it except in jest.

each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.

Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath.

The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

Goodbye, " she told him, running her hand across his broad back one last time. "I love you. And I'll never, ever stop missing you.

Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.

You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.

There is no disputing about taste.

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.

I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.