Things around here function on lies because if people knew the truth, it wouldn't work.

There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled with hope and optimism.

If you always depend on others then you'll never succeed. It's best to learn that lesson now.

I'm my own person, and in that I'm unique. Pain, anguish, those are all just part of the experience. The more you go through, the stronger you become.

One person should never decide what happens to the majority.

The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change.

One thing is painfully clear-I can't trust anyone.

There had been trials involving water, a time when witches were persecuted, bound, and tossed into the largest nearby body of water to see if they would sink or swim.

It seems ironic, expecting the unexpected, like she had fabricated pieces of her story to make it more interesting. Considering my boredom with the current version, I can't imagine the first draft.

The moods he's shown me have all been vastly different...as different as summer and winter, sometimes with fall between them.

There are things in this life that you must face alone. Birth is one of them-death is another.

A writer always writes.

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

It's my wife Ruth's birthday soon. I said to her: "What would you like for your birthday?" She said: "I want a divorce." I said: "I wasn't planning on spending that much."

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

I told myself I did not have to live as I once did. I did not have to re-create the violent moments that used to come aborning like a sulfurous match flaring off a thumbnail.

Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

Peace in society depends upon peace in the family.

Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.