If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.
The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.
I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book collection filled with Silver Age books from his youth. . . early Spider-Man, Thor, Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation.
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
Every man is as holy as he really wants to be.
('Mad Men') was my final audition of the pilot season. It had been three miserable, horrible months where I had zero callbacks, zero positive reception, one of those pilot seasons that makes you pretty sure you are never going to be an actor and never want to be an actor. And then that happened.
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.
I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things. . . it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how I hurt her and how I said the wrong things and how I got angry and how I wasn't the man she hoped I'd be. I see that in her face and I see she's going to die with that. You think I'm not preoccupied?
Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.
A good man never dies.
The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.
My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.
I am a road man for the lords of karma.
The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor
There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.
