Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.