One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just.

One does not make revolutions by halves.

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.

Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.

Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

Preserve there [bohemia] a hidden seed to glorify thy name.

Release all the anxiety that keeps you from moving ahead. Keep breathing it out and letting it go.

If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like spouse-abusers and their storms of violence.

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

I like to focus on the varieties of paper, the different sizes and watermarks, evidence perhaps of what was typed when and sometimes where and by whom.

Hillary Clinton's negatives are higher than any Democrat who has ever been elected, ever run.