I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

God, or what have you, will not be found at the far end of a syllogism, no matter how brilliantly phrased or conceived.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.