The closer two people stand to each other inwardly, the more readily they become for each other the condition under which alone their two beings find expression.

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free.

Princess Di is my sister, she just won't admit it.

Men work harder and more readily when they labor on that which is their own.

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?

My line of vision was such that the creature filled the moon like a fossil. It had gone there, I thought, to live and die, for there, of all places, was its small definition made whole and eternal

Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.

The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.