Richard Burton

“I abhor mere prettiness.”

“I am writing to please myself, though there is a feeling in some place in my head that this may be publishable. I haven't been writing for nothing.”

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.”

“I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.”