All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.