We fear violence less than our own feelings. personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Violence isn't always evil. what's evil is the infatuation with violence.
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
Turn The Goddam Music Up! My Heart Feels Like An Alligator.
The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.
This is the story of america. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.
I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.
Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats.
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
Faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth
Pray to god, but row away from the rocks.
Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.
You can't miss what you never had.
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honour or distinction than that.
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. you are free.