And should men name me dead, I beg ye, say "Nay, he but wearied here, and went away.

Love is a jeering mime.

Ah, love, 'tis a sorrowful land!

Oh, the morrow of pain and dole Is naught while the sunlight lingers.

Yet earth has never child she may not slay, Nor sea a lover that she cannot kill.

God is a creed outworn, Ill-wrought from a mirage fair, And life is an image pale That faces a sunless morn.

It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realize that, in the scheme of things, you really don't have time to sit on the sofa in your undies watching Homes Under the Hammer.

Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.

Your attitude is hard to conceal

I want her to engulf me in her blaze & scorch me until my darkness lies in ashes.

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

You are a being composed of light, love, and intelligence.

Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.