"Power is the thing that makes a man want to keep another man down."

"I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions."

"It seems to me that the human race is like a lot of children playing in a nursery, and the grown-ups are not coming."

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands."

"I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."