Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

Death stoops over me.I'm a problem in chess. Hehas the solution.

Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

I keep going till that pain says hello to me. I don't say goodbye until that pain says hello. That's a good set.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Men aren't men until they can get to Sears by themselves.