Death devours all lovely things; Lesbia with her sparrow Shares the darkness--presently Every bed is narrow.

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.

I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup.

Socialism is the triumph of people's prejudices over their reason.

I’m a big believer in accepting yourself the way you are and not really worrying about it.

The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

When you have elections in which 90% or 95% or 99% of those elected come from one party, then I think there is some fraudulent act.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Creativity reduces instinctual tension, it fuses pleasure with reality, and satisfies the libido.

He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy.

London matters to me because it's the center of what I do for a living and has been since Tudor times.