“Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.”
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.”
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.”
“Politics, n. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
“Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”
“Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law.”
“Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”
“Love, n. A temporary insanity, curable by marriage.”
“Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.”
“Manners are of more importance than laws.”
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”
“Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.”
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”