Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don't know how much in common that they have

Death can come slow. Death can come quick. If you've got one last breath, you better make the most of it.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

It's hard to steer a parked car.

There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

Royalty is a fine burial shroud.

Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.