Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish if we are to live in society. It is one I have long ago banished from my life. You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

An answer is always a form of death.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

Too hard for any frog's digestion,To have his froghood call'd in question!

The national government was itself the creature of the States...Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators.

Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more.

if you can't keep him interested, that's your fault.

More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.