“People have sex, even the religious ones. Yet, when sex is transferred into words, suddenly it's dirty, vulgar, immoral, trashy. Funny huh?”

“The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. ”

“...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.”

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."[Letter, November 1856]”

“time is an excellent teacher - unfortunately it kills all its pupils”

“Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.”

“By Hays' reasoning, penetrating a rectum with a penis is a violation of how God meant humans to function. However, penetrating a human body with a sword, a common way to kill people in biblical times, is acceptable. Apparently human bodies were designed to be penetrated by metal implements, but not by flesh.”