Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish.

She who means no mischief does it all.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

Mischief and malice grow on the same branch of the tree of evil.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

Union of hearts, not hands, does a marriage make, and sympathy of mind keeps love awake.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different

Human skin hisses like a rattlesnake when it burns.

If you want fans, you have to be a fan first.

What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it, but I hope it never stops.

My first and biggest love was always fiction writing. But it is a very lonely pastime.

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

An overblown conscience is an empty conscience.

Naturally there will come a time, when I will have to say goodbye, but I've soul-searched and this is not the time.