"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."

"I have a great contempt for all governments, and I believe they are all corrupt."

"I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."

"If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad."

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off."