Fear and hatred do not seem to find expression in tears.
What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.
To live in the past is to miss today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s blessings.
To lose is not always failure.
Any film is at least better than real life.
Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.
I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.
I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.
Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.
The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.
My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.
Flowers are words even a baby can understand.
Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish.
I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.
Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.
The court was not previously aware of the prisoner’s many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides.
All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice.
As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.