I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and woke up that way. We had to become each other's support system.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.