Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.

Since her diagnoses she has been fading like a light bulb with cancer’s hand on the rotary dimmer.

I believe in books. I believe more in cross-media - how characters are adapting across mediums.

Wherever I am in the world I want to be creating new projects and innovations, which are exciting and make a difference to communities.

Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with. It's only clay we've got.

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.

I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.