The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.

Because his killing is not a passion of the moment but a compelling urge that has been growing within him sometimes for years, he has completely amalgamated this practice into his lifestyle.

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities

Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.

You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left, " they'll do it.

I'd never opened up the gas station if it had been someone else, but I know Tucker's fond of you. It's a shame you don't keep in touch with the old man.

The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment