I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.