Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other."

The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

War is the biggest ego trip of all time.

The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

When I get smitten, I stay smut.

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.