John the Savage

"I'm not interested in the greater happiness. It always nauseates me."

"But I want to know what passion is like."

"I want to make you unhappy."

"Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy, plays the strong jet of my maturity."

"Remember that, Chris, remember that!"

"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness."

"I was trying to make him feel bad."

"Art, science—you seem to have paid a fairly high price for stability."

"I had moulted."

"A bottle of mescal in each hand."

"A real experience is a painful experience."

"I don't much like being made fun of about my mother."

"I'm not going to go on being hypocritical."

"How can I be independent when I'm not being myself?"

"I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly."

"I read Shakespeare, and now the World State feels hollow."

"Prometheus is the hero of all those who suffer in silence."

"I don't want to be controlled. I want to be free."

"All the world's a stage, but they've scripted every line."

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

"I'm afraid of beauty. And I'm afraid of you."

"Truth and beauty are on the same side."

"I had rather be a swineherd than I would be Orestes."

"I'd rather be myself. Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."

"I loathe them; I hate them, I despise them."

"I don't care if you offer me ten million women."

"But I want to know what passion is like."

"Happiness is a hard master."

"I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best."