Darkness reveals truths that no sun can bring to light, for inside the heart of man resides a beast, only tamed by the shackles of the day.

Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

Life is like riding a ship into the storm. For every wave you take up, you have to drop just as deep.

You must become your enemy to truly understand him.

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.

Our cure for pain is the very root of it: Revenge.

Sometimes we hold the world in our hands, but in our greed for more let it fall, losing everything that we once had.

For every God there is a Satan, and because God made all of us godly, there is a Satan in us all.

Call it devilish or divine, but once a man lets a thought become prevalent, it turns into reality.

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.

Learn to recognise when you need to know something.

Nothing is more beautiful than a smile that has struggled through tears

Bobby Fischer's current state of mind is indeed a tragedy. One of the worlds greatest Chess players - the pride and sorrow of American Chess

I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isn't a foreign country.

Capitals accumulate faster than population