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“They're looking for something dirty in everything, and if you're looking for something, you'll find it. You have to put up some kind of face for them, and that's the only face they understand.”

“If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire.”

“I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine, and a straight razor if you get too close to me.”

“Death is the greatest form of love.”

“Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself.”

“The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.”

“The mind is endless. You put me in a dark solitary cell, and to you that's the end, to me it's the beginning, it's the universe in there, there's a world in there, and I'm free.”

“A baby is born into this world in a state of fear. Total paranoia and awareness. He sees the world with eyes not used yet. As he grows up, his parents lay all this stuff on him. They tell him, when they should be letting him tell them. Let the children lead you.”

“Progress? There's no such thing as progress. There's only change. You dig a hole in the ground, you build up a city, and you fight a war, and you call it progress?”

“Rubin, I am not of your world. I've spent all my life in prison. When I was a child I was an orphan and too ugly to be adopted. Now I am too beautiful to be set free.”

“If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a thing.”

“Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.”

“You got to realize; you're the Devil as much as you're God.”

“Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?”

“You people would convict a grilled cheese sandwich of murder and the people wouldn’t question it.”

“These children that come at you with knives--they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.”

“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.”

“I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.”

“Believe me, if I started murdering people, there'd be none of you left.”