Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot." I felt I was becoming scientifically interesting.

A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.

I would like to show the world today as an ant sees it and tomorrow as the moon sees it.

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

... we each have our fleeting hour.

I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.

When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.