Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

To be able to forget means sanity.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

The function of man is to live, not to exist.

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.

Not all the monsters have fangs.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.