Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

One must desire something to be alive.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.

I honestly in a lot of ways don't want to sing about my real life, because that's private.

I'm amazed to form part of this amazing universe and I'm proud of the hunger that keeps me awake. Because when man is full he falls asleep.

This is illegal. If you don't let me out, you'll be arrested. I swear you will. You'll go to prison and be forced to have intimate relations with a man named Butch. Let. Me. Out.

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

The digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself.

The secret to failing isn't failing; the secret to failing is failing forward.

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.