And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

I write because in my books, I can experience those (mad and crazy) things that I won't be able to do in my real life

Maybe it's easier to talk to someone who won't ever actually hear what you say.

Oratory is the power to talk people out of their sober and natural opinions.

People are afraid of you, Arty. Girls are terrified of you. You’re a fifteen-year-old in a bespoke suit, and nobody died.

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

Funny how life messed with you.

We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.