Without shame, without conscience.

Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.

Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.

The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.

Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.

Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

I was able to do that [showing up of Democratic benefits] when I was the candidate. But I've not seen or presided over that kind of systematic outreach that I think needs to happen.

You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

A man who has drank his drinks cold at the same expense for one week can never be presented with them warm again.

Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).