Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

God’s image is in us all, so you can’t regard God when you disregard His people

A long time ago, I gave up trying to understand how other people think.

My theory is that one needs to be loved completely, unconditionally, and unfettered by parental disapproval, if one is to get happily through life which, after all, presents its own hurdles.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality

Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.

Too much of whatever is dangerous.

It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.