The human condition is such that we can only stomach so much imagination. We need for things to be labeled either fiction or nonfiction. There is no section in between.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

To me bathtubs are the epitome of luxury. Either you have no money to own one or you have no time to use one.

Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.

The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.

I listen to too many people. I'm only going to listen to my gut for the rest of my life.

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

I encourage you to make money and to become enlightened. The two are not necessarily different. Have fun with whatever you do because we are only here for a while.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of them; thou has thy music too.

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.