When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

The terror is trapped inside of him and paralyzes him. He closes his eyes again and tries to drown out the scream - but it keeps ringing and ringing and ringing in his ears.

I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?

If there is one thing above all others a successful man should know, it is when to stop.

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

It's too scary in television. It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about.

They'll see it. And it doesn't matter if they don't. It's only Rock 'n' Roll. But I do intend to move more into the Mainstream. Marilyn Manson is just the First phase.

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.