Land of lost gods and godlike men.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature.

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.