It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light.

I am very much a people person.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

America is the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.

I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?

There's a lot more to me than just funny.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.