The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

You got one life to live. So I'm living it the way I want to live it.

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.