The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

All deities are external manifestation of humanity's internal divinity.

There is No Greater Satisfaction God greater then mother.

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.

You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

We are all older and more tired.

When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.