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

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

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.

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

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

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

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

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

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 will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Humility is attentive patience.