Even if you win the rat-race, you’re still a rat.
A victory? What have we won? We've won a rock in the middle of a wasteland, on the shores of a poisoned sea.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
When I won the Oscar, there was something telling me 'this isn't the truth'. I had to get back to real work.
It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?
How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single herb or tree.
Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.
