History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
There is also this benefit in brag: that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
In the end, everything is a gag.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
