I warn you that when the princes of this world start loving you it means they are going to grind you up into battle sausage.

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine.

There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one is.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.

The louder your “I can” the closer your “I've done it!

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there.

There is always something to learn from everyone you cross paths with, because it's either you learn how to succeed or how to become a failure in life by looking at someone else's life.

Quit waiting for others to give to you

The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.

I do want to go out on top, as a winner

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things; but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other.

My fighting spirit has often seemed out of place.