Fame is the thirst of youth.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

It's one of my inventions-a shampoo, " Athena explained. "Anyway, I didn't know it would do"-she gestured toward the snakes-"that.

Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.

Fashion which elevates the bad to the level of the good subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

I mean, a lot of the times I think I'm seen as a bad girl, and I think that's because I'm so open.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.

Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine