Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.