Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.

What happened to Haiti is a threat that could happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all this.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

Teaching is what is technically known as a polymorphous activity; it quite literally takes many different forms.

Adrian suddenly made an abrupt turn onto a side street we'd nearly driven past. I jerked upright as he clipped the curb. "What are you doing? Think about your tires!

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.