Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

When inspiration comes life is lived in the moment and peace descends. When inspiration leaves thoughts turn to violently killing time

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind

Royal blood isn't blue, it is a jaundiced shade of red and riddled with broken chromosomes

We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.

I obviously invented Solipsism

True Love Isn't Hearts & Flowers. It's Blood & Guts & Bouquets Of Barbed Wire

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.

The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear

Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.

Sometimes death is just the beginning

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

Still when the lust of tyrant power succeeds, some Athens perishes, or some Tully bleeds.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

I don't know what it must be like to be a writer in general, but to be a comedy writer, it's got to be something - it's a very special kind of talent.

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.

Do not say that! How few are the Romans and how numerous are we ! 'An army's strength lies not in numbers of men but in Allah's help, and its weakness lies in being forsaken by Allah

He had fallen out of the ugly tree, and hit every branch.

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.