All recurring joy is pain refined.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Take the wheel and create spectacular moments for yourself. Rev up the extraordinary in your life!

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

The Christian has a great obligation to be ethical and honest in all things, even sometimes at personal hazard. It is in the difficult situation that the qualities of a Christian are seen.

Fear grows in the darkness of the mind. It vanishes with the light of knowledge like the morning mist.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

The reality is that the shows kind of disconnect from the songs a little bit. You're playing the songs, but they take on a life of their own.

Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world.

Forbes has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.

I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.