The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Once you label me you negate me.

Thought is free.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

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.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.