Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.