I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

Better never than late.

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.