Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

You need to relax and be yourself, not whoever it is you’re trying to be in your mad little head. I bloody don’t, though. I’m me and I’m good at it.

Nature intended in her design a hearty life of toil, open fires and plump old age attended by a brood of sun-touched brats.

Joe is never sure whether they're mad or just alarmingly and uncompromisingly incapable of self-delusion.

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

Negative feedback can make us bitter or better.

They [Democrats] don't even want us around.

When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.

Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams

I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.