If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.