Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.

The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me?

No one gives it to you. You have to take it.

We're all gonna die, let's act accordingly.

When you decide to be something, you can be it.

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

There's no justice in this world.

You can learn a lot, watching things eat.

A lot of people had to die for me to be me.

I don't understand your book. Isn't every book a book of words?

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.

The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

Blondes are like white mice, you only find them in cages. They wouldn’t last long in nature. They’re too conspicuous.

Power educates the potentate.

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.