Love all love of other sights controls. And makes one little room an everywhere.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.

By [Christ’s] resurrection life, He gives us the power over the tendency to sin as we allow Him to control our lives.

What a strange joy it was to talk, to fish gleefully into the past and fling its fragments about us, with the unfailing aroma of pleasantness that pasts always seem to possess!

Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

We can choose our family. We can't choose our relatives.

I started collecting couture when I was about 10 or 11 years old, and the very first piece I bought was a Balenciaga suit from 1962.

A well-told lie can heal. Otherwise, what's fiction?

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.