The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

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.

The right faith gives you power to live with questions you have no answers for.

In the fleeting light she saw the meadow, dotted with stunted hawthorns, their twisted limbs dense with red berries, and then a shape: achingly familiar, child-sized, shockingly still.

You got to laugh Tree, if you don't you'll cry.

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.

I never take counsel of my fears.

Looks can be decieving

Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.

I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains.

I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.