A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

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

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

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

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.