We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.

Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

Man is a fraction of the animal world. Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should like to believe.

What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.

There is a virtue, I must presume, in shamelessness, since by placing on parade the things one does not know, one discovers that no one else knows either.

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

Always appreciate what you have and what you are.Don't cry because of a problem, cry for the power to face a challenge...

I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death