Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

I did so many bad things to your god

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

That kid can hit balls over buildings.

I think they named the orange before the carrot.

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

My idea of a good work-out is two hours spent worrying about the bags under my eyes.

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

As Americans, we do love punishment.

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.