He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

They talked about each others’ houses, and characters, and families--just as the Joneses do about the Smiths.

Your comedy and mine will have been played then, and we shall be removed

...to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.

..the dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers

And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.

[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

Are not there little chapters in everybody’s life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone!

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends...

Mother is God in the eyes of a child.

Lumea e o oglinda care ofera inapoi fiecaruia reflectia propriului chip. Daca te incrunti se incrunta si ea inapoi spre tine, daca razi devine si ea o companie vesela si placuta

His first and only love, whom he had adored ever since when? – ever since yesterday, ever since for ever.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

Charming Alnaschar visions! It is the happy privilege of youth to construct you, and many a fanciful creature besides Rebecca Sharp has indulged in these delightful daydreams ere now!

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.

When you stop growing you start dying.

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

You know a real friend? Someone you know will look after your cat after you are gone.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.

Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit -- not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

Language is a virus from outer space

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The face of 'evil' is always the face of total need.

Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.