We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world.

False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing.

Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

Blessed is the society that has oldies.

Of everythingI have ever endured, YOUareMy Favourite Tragedy.

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

You got to be ready for everything in life

Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.

I feel like a nuclear missile. Point me in that direction, I'll go.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

Different people work different ways.

Sometimes fear comes, not before the battle or even in the midst of the battle, but after we have won the victory.