Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

Every conversation, every failure, every opportunity is a chance to get better. Starting today.

Dangerous objects are glamorous places to be.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I love going to the factories of La Plata, or Little Havana and seeing them roll cigars. I get excited. To me it is more beautiful than a topless club

In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.

Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.

The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

Marines die, that's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever.

I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.