Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?

Be the light in the darkness to inspire and to enlighten others.

In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.

You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.

I didn't want people to accuse me of being really depressive. I really tried to fight against that and not have a complete downer about the subject.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.

My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

When ignorance reigns, life is lost...