I seat myself at the typewriter and hope, and lurk.

The complexity of human relationships is never simple to follow; it is like intricate lacework, but lacework made of steel.

Murder is a plant of slow growth.

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

A request not to worry is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

murder is not polite.

A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

With firm faith in our hearts, to sustain us along the hard road to victory, we will find our way to a secure peace, for the ultimate benefit of all humanity.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.