The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!

Those who glory in their looks - not in their hearts - dress to please others.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Death is a continuation of my life without me.

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

One of the most stupid things to do is to pretend you are smart. When you pretend to be smart, you are at the height of stupidity.

In America, they really do mythologize people when they die.

Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.