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There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.
A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.
The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major
Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television.
In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.
What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.
Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.
I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.
The only reason runaway global warming seems unstoppable is that we have not yet tried to stop it.
But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.
You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.
Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.
I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself
The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Wouldn't it be kinder to say that a lie is a short work of fiction? 'A story' as my daughter says?
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this, leaving all else alone.
The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason.
Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.
When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.
I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal in value to those he's stolen.
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.
Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.
On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.