There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. – Samuel Butler
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. – Samuel Butler
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler
My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm — as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy. – Camille Anna Paglia