There Is No God. This negation must be understood solely to affect a creative Deity. The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit co-eternal with the universe remains unshaken.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

It was as unsatisfying as a handjob from someone wearing an oven mitt.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

We are losing the 'War on Drugs,' which means there's a war going on and people on drugs are winning it.

I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.

I think of myself as a real writer, not just someone who dabbles in it, so I deserve some credit.

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the landlord does not intend to repair.

Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.

My smiles don't result from good things, they result in good things.

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.