God is a creator, not a law giver.

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.