"When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people."

"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."

"It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed."

"Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?"

"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

"People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future."

"What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!"

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse."

"Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesna€?t mean he lacks vision."

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."

"Of children as of procreation - the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable."