It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

I am not now That which I have been.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

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

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

Effective action is always unjust.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.