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

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Genius is sorrow's child.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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 bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

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

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.