The printed page was like wine to me.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!

Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.

I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.

My companions ate the bear. I found I had no appetite.

The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work for him.

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.

It was - it's always very nice to be somebody rather grand.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

If you reduce the guns and the ammo, you'll reduce the murders.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.