If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Passionate—that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.

Stand up

Tell me a legend, ” he said out of nowhere, and he realised they were making stories of each other, or themselves.

Knowledge is power, I said at last. "Let's do it.

Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes.

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.

I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that's still part of my personality today.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.