You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

I am possessed by love and have no options.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.

May your dreams defy the laws of gravity.

For once I'm not the guy losing my temper all the time.

Content is fire and social media is gasoline.

We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.

I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

I'm too excited to sleep!

The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.