To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

I would rather rudder

In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of two characters. The first means pain

When I am idle and shiftless my affairs become confused when I work I get results ... not great results but enough to encourage me.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

The best diet is the one that you don't know you are on.

When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.

The game is never lost till won.

I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.

The unfolding code of what you really are occurs every time you go to sleep.