Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.
If you think I wear the cloak of filth, then let me tell you baby, I wear it real good.
I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"
I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.
Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.
I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie. Look, I know he has to appeal to the crazy right-wingers in his party, but the fact is, he’s not as forward-thinking as an eighty-seven-year-old lady who wears a crown on her head. It’s pathetic.
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity. . . . No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.