“Buy a pup and your money will buy. Love unflinching that cannot lie.”
This prophecy has turned out entirely and miserably wrong.
The devil's voice is sweet to hear.
I'm afraid of death. I'm afraid of planes, cars. Having ascended to the ship, the first thing I look for is the lifeline.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
“I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.”
Passion for fame: a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.
Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is dangerous.
When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.
Time makes more converts than reason.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
I need to be able to rock out.
Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
When you come to a fork in the road, take it
What can be explained is not poetry.
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
The world grew cheap, as worlds must.