I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is.

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

Samuel Butler

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain

You can't just go around killing people.You're right. You can't go around killing people.

Cassandra Clare

The older order changeth, yielding place to new,And God fulfils himself in many ways,Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. -- A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Kurt Vonnegut

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Stendhal

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you.

Byron Caldwell Smith

Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

Jack White