For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed.

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross.

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?

Always Sir Arthur lost so much blood that it was a marvel he stood on his feet, but he was so full of knighthood that knightly he endured the pain.

For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.

We shall now seek that which we shall not find

Wit thou well that I will not live long after thy days.

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

A century ago man’s chief concern was his spiritual life

Life is a romantic business but you have to make the romance.

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.

I’ve got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can’t go to Sing Sing with a green face.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether.