Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

The deepest truth blooms only from the deepest love.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

I think Donald Trump would be a horrible President.

I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

Titus Bramble: The only explanation for his existence in the Premiership is that he is already here.

A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.