Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson
Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things. – Samuel Johnson
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. – Samuel Johnson
I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg