When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

I don't want to be this skinny.

A good trainer can hear a horse speak to him. A great trainer can hear him whisper.

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.

The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

My dream was actually just to have a computer some day. If I'd imagined that it meant starting a company to sell them, I probably would have avoided the whole thing.

Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.