To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's "yes," all's well. That is enough.

It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

I tend to jot down music.

Not long ago someone said I should shorten it to just Emma. But I really, really love my name. From as far as I can remember, my parents have taught me to be really proud of my name.

The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.

All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.

Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only stupid people or fools would think it was bad.

Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell." - Bella Swan.