The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.

It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

A primary requirement in every enterprise in habit-formation is self-confidence.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

The warrior guided by the spirit serves humanity, the warrior without, serves the ego

My dreams were all my own I accounted for them to nobody they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides.

Vampires are always going to be sexy.

A salesman sees a commission.

Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.

This is a mournful discovery. 1)Those who agree with you are insane 2)Those who do not agree with you are in power.