Out of too much learning become mad.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

Individually, we are one drop.Together, we are an Ocean.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Human rights is a numbers game. Who is going to care if only 20 people pitch for a protest?

She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.

I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.

Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.