The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.
The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.
O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!
Oh, why should vows so fondly made, Be broken ere the morrow, To one who loves as never maid Loved in this world of sorrow?
What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?
Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.
Empires are synonymous with centralized if occasionally schismatized hierarchical power structures in which influence is restricted to an economically privileged class retaining its advantages through usually a judicious use of oppression and skilled manipulation of both the society's information dissemination systems and its lesser as a rule nominally independent power systems. In short, it's all about dominance.
I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.