Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

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.

Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.

I love your duck with all its ducky goodness!

Can you dance?" she asked before she could stop herself. "I can," he said, affronted. "I'm really good with the slow songs.

I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

I always look for a challenge and something that's different.