Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

The art of communication is the language of leadership.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

The great appear great to us.

The Irish people will only be free, when they own everything from the plough to the stars

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction

Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space.

I am more comfortable doing a drama.

Belief unconfirmed by experiment is vain.

I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories.

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.

There is no such thing as sportsmanship.