But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

History is the devil's scripture.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Its not the men in your life that matters, its the life in your men.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.