It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.

I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Country is run by... financial powers & corporate interests [who] send their lawyers to Congress to make laws so that they don't have to pay taxes

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.