Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Show a little faith in someone when they need it. It’s amazing how it comes back around to you.

Film is incredibly democratic and accessible, it's probably the best option if you actually want to change the world, not just re-decorate it.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

In 1975 I was among a group of blacks who formed the Black Americans in Support of Israel Committee.

Why should women not be a martyr for her cause?

It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.

Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.

People cannot endure inexplicable worthlessness

I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.

I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.