I wanted the whole world or nothing.

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.