I am not now That which I have been.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Effective action is always unjust.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.