What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

No one can live your life for you.

Look upon the world with loving eyes and the reflection everyone sees will contain love.

Potency does not mean being unnecessarily aggressive; one has to be wise.

My team in Orlando was a team full of people who nobody wanted, and I was the leader and I led that team with a smile on my face.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.

Truth should so humble that even dust could crush it.

Every State is a despotism, be the despot one or many.

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the cushion when somebody came in.

In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.