Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

That was Youth with its reckless exuberance when all things were possible pursued by Age where we are now, looking back at what we destroyed, what we tore away from that self who could do more, and its work that's become my enemy because that's what I can tell you about, that Youth who could do anything.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.

Power doesn't corrupt people; people corrupt power.