"Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself."

"It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."

"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed."

"There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness."

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."

"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

"I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian."

"People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask."