The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

It's funny how things work out.Trouble is, I'm still not laughing.

Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in and said: "Ashmol, Pobby and Dingan are maybe-dead." That's how she said it.

Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!

A Dog can never brag about catching a cat that waited for him.

You can't make someone agree with you, not even when you're 100 percent sure you're right.

There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.

I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun doing it.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire