It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Trusting your inner voice, which is one of the critical steps in developing intuition, is predicated on being truly self-confident.

Great dream or idea comes up when you are thinking of something other than yourself.

His eyes forward didn’t deviate from the off-road trail, his chiseled jaw gripped shut during the ride. He didn’t release any sound of explanation until we arrived.

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos.

Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.

One always likes one's latest book best. That's a natural feeling.

Man is certainly the most disgusting kind of worm that has ever crawled on this stupid ugly planet.