A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Yes, I am mad - like the Marquis de Sade was mad, like Giordano Bruno was mad, like Antonin Artaud was mad.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
We started out as far to the left as we could.
It would be nice to garner new fans and make it a success - and success is relevant, we already know all that.
The only way you can write about a happy family in a drama is to make them unhappy.
My favorite Swamp Thing stories have always been about a man wrestling with monsters both internal and external.
My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
I don't want anybody between a doctor and a patient - not an insurance company bureaucrat or a Washington bureaucrat.
One with the law is a majority.
Freddie Mercury said years later that he got the idea for 'We Will Rock You' from 'Bits and Pieces.' I never knew that.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence was never written down.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.