Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

All things are dark to sorrow.

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

The spirit of imagination smells exactly how the person inhaling it imagines it to smell.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

The US Open flag eliminates a lot of players. Some players just weren't meant to win the US Open. Quite often, they know it.

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

I have always done what I love myself. My philosophy was that I never had focus groups. I did what I wear.

The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.