I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

Mrs. Trotter made a sincere though wrong sound, while opening her handbag to look for help.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.

Opportunities are visible to those who are looking for them.

You must never leave me Sweetness. I will never leave you.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I kind of knew Cleveland was going to get the No. 1 pick. I think they rigged it. No, don't quote me on that.

I was obsessed with Claire Danes because she was Juliet. There is something about her still to this day - she is a brilliant actress. And she did make out with both of my boyfriends.

My life is a glorious adventure.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside of me.