Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.

Shape your coat according to your cloth.

Poetry is the honey of all flowers, the quintessence of all sciences, the marrow of wit, and the very phrase of angels.

New herrings, new!' we must cry, every time we make ourselves public, or else we shall be christened with a hundred new titles of idiotism.

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

Emotions change. Truth doesn't. What will you build your life upon?

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

I've been very fortunate, because I've cooked for a lot of actors and actresses and musicians. I've cooked for presidents and I've been to the White House.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.

I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.