Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.

I don’t want your punk ass man, I’m too tough

It’s better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

God is the same everywhere.

What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

Jazz fans love Miles and I love him for a myriad of reasons, but the overviews are always too simplistic.

The Europeans destroyed what was in their way. That was true over almost the entire world, with very few exceptions. European wars were wars of extermination. If we were to be honest about that history, we would describe it simply as a barbarian invasion.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Well, I do think there’s blame — yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. You look at — you look at both sides. I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either.

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

If you believe, you will. If you don’t, you won’t.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

If there are 10 people there, two or three are going to recognize you.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty… break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.

I’m all about time management. I have gotten my makeup prep in the morning down to, like, four minutes. There’s just not enough time in the day.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Right now, it’s really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn’t deliberately lie to them just to save my image.