But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

You are loved. If so, what else matters?

Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.

In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

OK, Rule number 1: Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within 4 feet of my lips.

I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

Information is bad for knowledge.

Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence

I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.

You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.