"Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being."

"You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog."

"In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich."

"I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements."

"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards."

"Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not."

"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."

"Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors."