Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes, And pleasant scents the noses.

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

The taste forever refines in the study of women.

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective

Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until he sets out to seek ways and means of repeating it.

Who you? Your name smaller than fine grains in couscous It's the highest calibre, your calibre is deuce deuce

I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.