"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned."

"There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject."

"This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one..."

"If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad."

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

"Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity."

"Man's drive for self expression, which over centuries built his monuments, does not stay within set bounds; the creations, which yesterday were the detested and obscene, become the classics of today."

"Hell is other people."

"That's the irony of women in charge, they don't like other women in charge."

"There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation."

"Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men."