I have very set and consistent principles, but I am flexible on tactics. I like to get the job done.
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
For style beyond the genius never dares.
There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.
For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, and who can rightly die needs no delay.
I have taken pride in others, never in myself.
Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.
I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas.
Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.
The rolling stone never gathereth mosse.