Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Do you know what is the hardest thing in life? To make a choice.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

The more one judges, the less one loves.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

An Irishman needs three things: silence, cunning, and exile.

To learn one must be humble. But life is a great teacher.