"I am but a man prone to let himself be swept off his feet by society, drunkenness, and the movements of the flesh."

"I am like a ripe nut; I am ready to fall."

"I'm like a ripe stool and the world's like a gigantic anus, and we're about to let go of each other."

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess."

"If a woman grows weary and at last dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her die in childbearing—she is there to do it."