The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

If my mind and my city were the same thing then I was losing my mind.

While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me—perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality.

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

Isabel’s indelible absence is now an organ in our bodies whose sole function is a continuous secretion of sorrow.

Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

I am actually as good as everybody else pretends to be. It's scary.

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.