Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

The reason some people put on a mask in not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

Frankly, I had enjoyed the war… and why do people want peace if the war is so much fun?

The true writer has nothing to say. What counts is the way he says it.

I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

Rep. James Clyburn, the state's only black congressman -- controls 20 percent to 25 percent of the primary vote.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.

I do think men fear female intuition.

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.