You would do well to guard your tongue, lest it be stricken from you.

We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized when it invariably catches up to us.

Girls can fight with swords, too. Sometimes, even better than men can. They just have to want it badly enough that they're willing to work harder at it.

I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws.

Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life.

You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority.

That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.

Hatred is as easy as slipping on a well-worn woolen cloak. If only it provided the comfort of one.

One doesn't need to be taught fear when one is the hunted.

You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.

When we experience inner impoverishment, love for another too easily becomes hunger: for reassurance, for acclaim, for affirmation of our worth.

I get called 'Mayor West' a lot in airports. I've been very fortunate to have a fan base that keeps growing, and the work gets such a warm response and humor from people.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name.

I guess I invented extended warranties, because that's all we had to sell at Chrysler in those days.

The hustlers on the corner were my role models.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.