Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.