It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

That which yields is not always weak.

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

A little truth seasons a lie like salt.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Yes my lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.

Worship God with deep reverence.

A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through.

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

I'm here today because of LSD. LSD gave me the confidence to be who I am today. Completely.

All work is empty save when there is love.

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.

I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.