One must not cheat anybody not even the world of one's triumph.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I am a cage, in search of a bird.

People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'.

Guilt is what makes you accountable.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

Take hold of your life and order yourself to be valiant.

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.

Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

I decline to go fox hunting.

When I turned 36 I realised - the likelihood is that in four years time I'll be 40.