It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Caricature is rough truth.

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

We are betrayed by what is false within

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

You can't fight hearts and minds with money.

Everything that you have done has led up to what you are now. Everything you do now will lead up to what you will be.

I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.

All writing is dreaming

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

You could be the king but watch the queen conquer!

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Quite a while ago, I made a conscious choice to place my teaching first, so it was very ego-invested. That decision wasn't a good thing in some ways.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.