One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...

. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.

You have to have the power to employ pain, to repent, to be illuminated, you must have the opportunity and even the time.

Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.

I am a prisoner of perception, a compulsory witness.

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy.

Prejudice is an act of violence.

Education reform doesn't come cheap. But the price of ignorance is far, far greater

Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.

When someone loves you, there's nothing they won't do for you. When they stop loving you, there's nothing they will.

I am not Pele or Maradona

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Eleven would have been the best time. Eleven is just about the best age for almost everything.