Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.

I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Truth is so often disconcerting.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

Do the new, be the change.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Every new time will give its law.

Freedom is always wise.

But Blake's voices returned to dictate revisions.

Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

The only people who know about me are people who would know about me.

I think for far too long the Church has concluded that Christians don't need the gospel, it's simple what non-Christian people need in order to be saved.