Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Attachment to the hurt is the root of all suffering.

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that... But it's what I meant.

So many artists who came out during that time, including myself, were able to get on radio. New forms of singer-songwriters developed out of that.

My responsibility as a photographer, to my subjects, is to know what's going to happen with my images.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

You must take chances. If you do nothing, you reduce the possibilities you have for greater joy.