Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Literature is a mountain made of gold in this poor world!

I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse.

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

Speaking of nudes, I have always had a great fondness for this subject, both in my paintings and in my photos, and I must admit, not for purely artistic reasons.

My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has stolen my heart.