I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.

Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

A controlling man, surely a mythical creature?

When all else fails, dream bigger.

Love is a decision. Not always an easy one.

We read, frequently if not unknowingly, in search of a mind more original than our own.

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.