The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

The desert of virginity Aches in the hotness of her mouth.

My soul is like this cloudy, flaming opal ring.

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.

As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.

The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

To have loved, to have been made happy thus, / What better fate has life in store for us?

I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

To give light to others, you must first take light from others!

No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

When we love the planet, we love ourselves, and when we love ourselves, we love the planet.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

One of the biggest blessings in my life is that I have a very wonderful family, a lovely wife and two lovely daughters.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Fa&#231ade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

Theology is unnecessary.

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.