I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Show me Peace and I will show you Love

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

I don't see that as being good for America - that the country pits parents against everybody else.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

But what if we are dealing with fools?

Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.