I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
My specialty is detached malevolence.
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
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.
Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.