Love gives itself; it is not bought.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.

Curiosity is also my worst vice, and once stirred one not to be denied.

I sure would like to get kissed.How would that feel on my mouth, How different would I be after, a changed climate down in my insides?

Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Worship the Trinity, which I call the only true devotion and saving doctrine.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.