If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

...it's only on a black day that you begin to have friends.

We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.

The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.

[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.

If you blend in, you don't stand out.

Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.

The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'

Gratitude will make a man do incredible things.

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.

I feel like you should always be questioning the genre you're doing. If you're doing something that sounds like a lullaby, it can be good to make it about someone stalking someone.

Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.