There is no dallying with God .

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Lust is the base of most physical ills, and like a tapeworm in the system, it feeds on our best energies and vitality.

Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.

I'm homesick. But I cannot go back to Syria. I lost everything. And I'm against the Syrian regime, so there is no way to go back. I'm really homesick.

I am indeed a hedonistic utilitarian. I have defended hedonistic utilitarianism for quite a while.

Ever since I was a young kid, I was always hungry for something. It was this thing inside me that no matter what I did, I couldn't satisfy it.