As far as writing I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies it makes you think If that counts I certainly could write.
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.