"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out."

"Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you."

"On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers."

"If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens."

"I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen."

"If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer."

"The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later."

"Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow."

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

"It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking."

"He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion."

"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."