What fun it would be, " he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Music is the literature of the heart

Change starts with awareness and once infected with knowledge the mind can never return to ignorance.

A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.

My first time on stage was the class "graduation" at the Comedy Store. It was awesome. Everything got huge laughs and I just thought I knew how to do comedy.

Achievements of life are momentary, but realizations are longer lasting.

However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.

You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.

I definitely fall in love quickly, and I'm very in love with being in love. But it is hard for me to write about love.

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.

Sometimes it feels like everything is going wrong. Even with the things that are wrong already.