Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance.

Swimming is simply moving meditation.

Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevitably began with some foolish innocent (or two) straying from the path. Then anything might happen.

I treat all women with the utmost respect both professionally and personally and would never do anything to disrespect them.

I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow.

I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

Music is first, lyrics are secondary.

In the gospel, we discover we are far worse off than we thought, and far more loved than we ever dreamed.