How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.

People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.

I always thought that cemeteries gave me some sense of perspective

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.

Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.