She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Judgment…is one of the ego’s tools to foster separation through comparison.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

I hate brandy...it stinks of modern literature.

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

Eighty-six percent of the gun death of children under the age of 14 internationally is right here in the United States of America. It is madness.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

Hollywood is all about making an entrance. I don't want to be a walking advertisement for anyone other than myself.