Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

Tomorrows were full of awful things. Today, now, was the essential.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

the possession of power brings on madness.

The law should be the point at which savagery ended because civilization stood in its path.

To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

Maybe that was what millions could do-- nail a satisfied smirk to one's face.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Your tonal will enable you to deal with the world well, to do well in a career and interact with others.

[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.

A surprising amount of my jokes sound very implausible but are true.

I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

I love the smell of a woman's armpit when she's not wearing deodorant.

You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create.

I can't let it pass when you say: "You are the weak party." No, I am not the weak party. I am the man who is making the war. I am the man who is making the peace.