The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?

Think'st thou heaven is such a glorious thing?I tell thee, 'tis not so fair as thouOr any man that breathes on earth.

Hell is just a frame of mind.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be.

FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper bloodAssure my soul to be great Lucifer's, Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death.

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times.

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

Ummm…” She licked her lips. “Define fun.” “Quit doing that, jailbait. It’s distracting.

Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.