If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

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

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.