The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. they force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

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.

This is the story of america. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

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.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

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.