I'm not in the least Southern; I'm entirely New England.

The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

But what can be done, the one who loves must share the fate of the one he loves.

The kingdom of God is within men.We must manifest the glory of God on earth.

Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.

Although I'd always wanted children, it was such an opposite thing to being a singer.

We are not committed to this or that. We are committed to the nothing in-between, whether we know it or not.

A sexually fulfilled husband will do anything for you.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.