For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Love- if not reciprocated, comes with an expiry date, no matter how strongly we beg to differ.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.

A woman and a glasse are ever in danger. [A woman and a glass are ever in danger.]

Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes.

When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

My actions are my only true belongings.

I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.