Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.

It hadn't escaped her notice that when she let him believe the worst of her, still he vowed to stand beside her and work toward forgiveness.

Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.

Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul.

As a young girl, I just wanted to have fun and compete. There were no goals of becoming an Olympic athlete. I wanted to hang out with my friends. I wanted to do something fun, and that's what I did

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.