How I hate the sight of an umbrella!

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

I put my own d*ck in my mouth. I was 14 and much more flexible at the time. It was soft and required a lot of pulling. I really wanted that case of beer.

When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.

I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.

I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule.

I think it's a really good thing to put yourself in a situation where you feel really uncomfortable because I think things can come out of that discomfort.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.