There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty

If you read great literature every day, you will uplift your spirit, soul and self.

I love you, Avery. Always. You completed my life. You made me whole, gave me hope, made me a better man. For me, you were everything right in my life." - Kane Dalton

Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Once you stop learning, you start dying

I saw a monkey walking on a leash and thought it was an ugly foreign child.

I'm not really one to be on camera, I'd rather be writing songs.

How seriously can I take myself? I'm just one of six billion people, right?

King Constantine IX of Regia had been killed three times and was bored with it. He wanted a bath.

People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others.