All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Each soul is potentially divine.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.