Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues and ended with a haunting solitary song with no lyrics.

Our dreams wrapped in desire let us fly high enough to get the reward.

Always solve for the big picture, not for the problem

I don't know that I'm unique in that people relate to my music, but I would hope people would say that I'm honest and that I do the best work I can possibly do instead of coasting.

No one has a right to hoard things which he cannot use.

We really feel the fact of our mortality after we turn forty years old.

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.

We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.

Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.