How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

As concerns the question of the psychological engine that drove Hitler, the conventional interpretation of lusting after power is, in final analysis, the refuge of lack of understanding.

God didn't create monsters. Monsters created themselves.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man.

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no...

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline; he is limited by circumstances.

Men are men they needs must err.

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me for she never speaks well of me herself nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse - As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.

We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.

To be remembered is, I think, a basic human right. Not one that occurs to a person when it is there, but like a parched throat in the desert when it is gone.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Then, aided by the booze, like a fool I tossed off one of those throwaway lines that would have been better thrown away. Ah, Frank! I thought you were going to be down here fucking Lana.

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life - - is the real sin against the holy spirit of life

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not...

Nice jewelry and a boy's corpse. Oh you're so pretty.

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

The short space of threescore years can never content the imagination of man; nor can the imperfect joys of this world satisfy his heart. Man alone, of all created beings, displays a natural contempt...

Our greatest threats never come from strangers but those closer to us.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

I kill things... and eat them. Axel Reid

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

An honest man is always a child.

You never think it's going to happen to you, do you?