You can't really give away anything in your book. . . should be exciting, it's my life, and I'm a cool and exciting guy.
As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?
A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.
I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Art is the perfection of nature,. . . nature is the art of God.
I don't believe that fashion should exclude people - I have always been about making it accessible to everyone.
The first time I ever performed spoken word poetry in front of a big crowd, it totally failed. It ended, people barely clapped. . . in retrospect the poem was terrible. And for a while I thought this was something I would never do again. And then I realized that, in my 17-year-old head, that was the worst it could have been. And it wasn't that bad - [because] from there, it could only get better. And I think that failure kind of freed me up to explore and not be afraid of failing again.
They can say whatever they want to say, but it is going to be hard, my friend, to duplicate me.
Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party? Time was made for slaves, But never for us so hearty.