To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest All wordly right, save what he hath by beast.

I was trying to find my way into the music business still, but I didn't want to portray something that I wasn't. I really wanted to be just me.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

In this job it's like beasts of prey in a cage

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.