Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

A broken mirror is good luck if you want it to be.

I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because he will find an easy way to do it.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

The world is known by the senses The senses are known by the mind The mind is known by Consciousness And Consciousness is known by itself

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.