Sing for faith and hope are high - None so true as you and I - Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"

Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

The backlash against feminism remains savage, strong, and omnipresent, but it is not winning. The world has changed profoundly, and it needs to change far more.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Simplicity has power. Founding our life on constructive, positive behavior is the simplest, most direct, and powerful approach I've ever found-simple, but not easy.

Have you seen the new Polish jigsaw puzzle? One piece.

I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

I can't wear yellow anymore. It's too matchy-matchy with my catheter.

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

In a war, you do whatever you have to do.

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.