I have a suicide impulse.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

I have a suicide impulse.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

I like to be who I am.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope.

We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

I have a suicide impulse.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.

People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'