I've spend my whole life hating and loving my brother with equal measure. I never though I would be the one to help drive a stake through his heart.

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.

The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.

How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.

That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them.

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes.

When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability.

I think we're in the take-the-money-and-run stage of the economy. So the banks may go under, but the bankers, who make the policy, clean up.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.