The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

You have to be an artist and a madman...

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings.

I’ve experienced a lot of crap in my life but the one thing that I have learned, is it is better to laugh about it rather than complain about it.

As for our majority... one is enough.

Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.

What is of consequence is I did my best.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families.

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

The techniques of the theater are the techniques of communicating.

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.