Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Sunlight is painting.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who do not.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.