One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Truth is independent of facts always.