The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

My pit of love is too shallow, I can't fall deep.

It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them.

I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You've been awesome, but now it's my turn to be my own man.'

You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?

Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

Anything that requires thought is just too much.

My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20.

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.