All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

She burned too bright for this world.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

He’s more myself than I am

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.

Look at you walkin' out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did, what you think you fancy huh?!

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

Take a walk on the wild side.

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.