If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.

I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist.

‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ There is a great answer to that one going around: ‘We don’t know; it hasn’t told us yet’.

Oxford shirts. Definitely more oxford shirts.

How is a woman to tell the story of her life and not stumble upon men?

It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.