'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

"I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

God is love, the bishops tell. Yes, I know, But love is hell.

A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.