Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

The only wisdom is to fear God.

The farther away, the closer the home becomes.

Good heart, good spirit.

One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden, ' which was so cool.

Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.