No jewels, save my eyes, do I own, but I have a rose which is even softer than my rosy lips. And a quiet youth said: 'There is nothing softer than your heart.' And I lowered my gaze...

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

I was irritated by the way he conflated his own shifting needs with an impersonal destiny. I want it, therefore...it's in the stars!

Problems are the guiding lights along the way of life.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

I would prefer not to be living with anyone, really. Like, as much as I care for my special friend, I don't want to live with her.

We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight.

I think that was the smartest thing [immigration policy], he [Donald Trump] is done in his whole campaign there .

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.