Oh, you mean I'm a homosexual! Of course I am, and heterosexual too, but what's that got to do with my headache?

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.

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.

There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

Full of wise saws and modern instances.