Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

If I sometimes seem to take too great pride in my fighting ability, it must be remembered that fighting is my vocation.

If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban.

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy- I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm deluded and delusional. I'm lost without you. I need you.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

There is only one race, the human race.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.

Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.