By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.
After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.
Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of personal wealth, and passed from generation to generation as an object of family wealth. There is no other economic good as marketable as gold.
I tap a Malediction out of the box, fire it up, and puff. It tastes like a tire fire in a candy factory next door to a strip club. The best cigarettes ever.
Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!
You can't judge people by their cover.