It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Excellence does not require perfection.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it but it takes brains to build a house.

This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me

Hate is a bottomless cup

I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights)

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions.

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism.

Lot of folks like to mock dumb history, and pretend it's just a few idiots. Isn't. It's the country.