I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

There is no dallying with God .

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.

Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.

Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

No nation has reason to regard itself superior to others by virtue of its innate endowment.

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

A ship is a beauty and a mystery wherever we see it.

Fighting dragons is my holy joy.

There's one site where you can buy pictures of me for five bucks a pop.

Words are nets through which all truth escapes.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.