I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

I want to put a ding in the universe.