Honore de Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.