No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Take me away from all this Death.

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Despair has its own calms.

We learn from failure, not from success!

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

I knew then that the fewer items I was acquiring, dusting, packing, moving, and lugging around in life would free up my energy and time to create...

If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking.

I’m always thinking about what I’m missing. Even when I’m happy with what I have.

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet and for the listener and for all of us.

He nodded. "And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.