My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

I don't believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage.

Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.

When words can't make it better, hold my hand and don't let go.

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety.

But I never get attracted to fans cause the eager beaver could be the collapse of a dam

Our seeing is sexual initially.

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

Today we can be sure we are heading into the right direction. We managed to put the round back on track, after a long hibernation. But we are not there yet.

Leaders begin with a different question than others. Replacing who can I blame with how am I responsible?

Guns 'N' Roses music was part of the fabric of all people.