“You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.”

“Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.”

“Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.”

“Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.”

“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.”

“The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.”

“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”

“Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.”

“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”

“It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.”

“There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.”

“But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”

“Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.”

“Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."

"Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy."

"No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself."

"In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." (Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)"

"And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself."

"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice."

"We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me."

"Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me."

"Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again."

"Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?"