Not afraid to die, but not the fear of death

But you would still settle for me if I were that last, wouldn't you? Women are like that. They have to have a male.

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Be yourself and the people that don't mind are the people that matter.

I'd never been a prison guard before or anything.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.