The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

Life is an incurable disease.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it.

There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.

I cross-examined him and he double-crossed me but that's fine

Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.

Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be funny.'

Photography is truth.

The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.

I consider myself the luckiest man in the world. I have spent a lifetime doing what I love.

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.