“I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.”

“If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!”

“I am not afraid of the pen or the scaffold or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.”

“We must stand together if we don't there will be no victory for any one of us.”

“I am not afraid of the pen or the scaffold or the sword. I will tell the truth whenever I please.”

“We must stand together if we don't there will be no victory for any one of us.”

“I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.”

“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”

“Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'”

“Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.”

“You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.”

“It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen and paper. We do it with our bodies.”

“I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.”

“It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.”

“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.”