That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance.

A life without envy, hatred and lies was not a life worth living.

Ambition had never troubled me, so I decided to begin by watching life at my leisure for a few years, waiting until I finally felt tempted to find some circle of influence for myself.

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?

She looked at me with those empty eyes, and I thought, I'm going to make sure I fill them up with something.

someone asked: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?and i said(object): i give up..!!!

When I give I give myself.

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

I realised early on that there were two groups of people in the world: those who made the decisions and those who had the decisions made for them. I wanted to be one of the decision-makers.

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.

It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.