"When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves."

"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."

"It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated."

"Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education."

"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

"The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty."

"PRESCRIPTION, n. A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient."

"Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."

"War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel."

"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason."

"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content."

"Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through selfless work."