I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

I know not how to abstain from reading.

The best of a bad bargain.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow.

Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

You and I are more than you and I because it's we.

My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.

I'm not a role model. I'm a role villain.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

You are the Atma. You are permanent. The physical is not permanent. The physical is not the Atma.

I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know.