Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

Our first and last love is self-love.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

What she coaxed out of me was a visceral need to live, and wasn't that what fueled immortality and made it worthwhile anyway? That there were wonders still left to be uncovered?

I certainly dont feel like Ive been the victim of typecasting.

The time comes when our hearts sink utterly; When we remember Deirdre and her tale, And that her lips are dust.

I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

I enjoy going to Palm Springs when I'm living in Los Angeles.

Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth.

The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.

I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.