Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.

Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.

She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.

Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?

I prithee send me back my heart, Since I cannot have thine; For if from yours you will not part, Why, then, shouldst thou have mine?

Abruptness is an eloquence in parting, when spinning out the time is but the weaving of new sorrow.

Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

'Best Man Holiday' was a very successful film.

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

Most writers adore their editors, and I'm no exception.

To be forgotten is not something horrible; not to be remembered ever again is something horrible!

I don't need anything to live, to be honest. Give me a mattress or a futon on the floor and I'll be the happiest camper.

Our perception of space alters the space. It is consciousness that finds meanings in all spaces

All that is real is seen with the heart.