Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

The lintel of more than one collapsed Venetian house on Crete bears the Latin motto ‘The world is nothing but smoke and shadows’.

When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

If any of my characters require me to blacken my beard I do it, otherwise I don't.

We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

Man is no man, but a wolf

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]