If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

Oh, Gods."His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.

I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author.

Life is short and art is long.