“Life’s as kind as you let it be.”

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.

Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.

Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.

Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.

Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.

It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

If you love people you criticize them, and if you don’t love them you don’t criticize them, you let them go to hell, don’t you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love.

In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

There’s a kind of freedom in handing out torches and seeing who burns the bridge between you.