It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.
Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.
How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.
If you put that straight jacket on me, I am going to pull your endocrine system out of your body.
It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.
Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man
I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
I didn't dare let my mind wander off.
I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.
I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.
No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?
The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.
Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary.
The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.
Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.
