I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

They had money - quite a bit of it, actually - but for them, money was just bullets.

Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue.

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

Is life worth living? Aye with the best of us Heights of us depths of us- Life is the test of us!

If I were to be responsible for guiding souls, I would urge everyone to be aware of God's constant presence, if for no other reason than His presence is a delight to our souls and spirit.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Fair words cost nothing.

When you're dealing with people in an industry that's all about making money, they push you farther than you really wanna go.