Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

Pride is never so loud as when in chains.

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.

For power, you know, is a fretful thing, and hath its wings always spread for flight.

Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.

The enemy of man is man, my brother.

It was then I saw thy mother, and loved her, and took her away in my secret heart.

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so it can be destroyed through the banks.

Have you seen a blowfish driving a sports car?

With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.

You see, the problem in life isn't in receiving answers. The problem is in identifying your current questions. Once you get the questions right, the answers always come.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

One should not be adventurous being a woman.