Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Time and time again, throughout the history of medical practice, what was once considered as "scientific" eventually becomes regarded as "bad practice".

In my experience, what defines a crime depends on who’s getting screwed.

Three, two, one, and f*ck it!

I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

Being God would be the ultimate.

When God gives, he holds nothing back.

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.