Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

Nothing says you care like sending someone a kitten.

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

Steve Austin will never be employee of the month!

I don't like no confusion.

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.