“After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
“Carthago delenda est”
“The words of the Greeks are born on their lips, but those of the Romans in their hearts.”
“Little boy crying. "My daddy has been dead for 10 yrs, but he came to town to vote for Lyndon Johnson, and didn't come to see me.”
“The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how [to] free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times [I'd] rather be torn to pieces than rather it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.”
“I think I figured out why I don't have more friends. I find dead people more interesting than the living.”