People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

In this world, you only get what you grab for.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity.

Kissed mouth don’t lose its fortune, on the contrary it renews itself just as the moon does.

I still have dreams in which someone is coming to the door.

No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

An eldery fallen angel travelling incognito.

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.