No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture murder expulsion displacement bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.

War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.

People tell me they idolise me want to be like me but I tell them 'trust me you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured struggle pain.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance pain torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

You know in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art my poetry as fuel for them to torture other people.

In our nature however there is a provision alike marvelous and merciful that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

I get up in the morning torture a typewriter until it screams then stop.

When you have to get into the character each morning give it your voice your face it was torture.