Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Silence sweeter is than speech.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.

No one ever fell under the burden of the day; it is only when the burden of tomorrow is added that the load becomes unbearable.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.