Killing is like riding, you see. One never really loses the knack.

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long.

All beauty must have its imperfections, all happiness its share of sorrow.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind and body; hell is obsession with a voice, a face, a name.

Death was the ultimate power and I his eager, willing apprentice.

I have often thought I would have been quite happy as a spider.Even a spider has the right to a mate.

I can make anything disappear, if I really want to.

In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.

Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.

He felt gladness roar through his soul.

Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'

Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.

Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest.

Free lunches don't come cheap.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Those who don't fight evil hate those who do; and those who don't fight real evils make up little evils

I am a great believer in planning- economic, social, political, military, total world planning.

Our body is a small universe; to regulate emotions and feelings is a way of harmonization.