Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.

The less we love her when we woo her, The more we draw a woman in,

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

But flaming youth in all it's madnessKeeps nothing of its heart concealed:It's loves and hates, its joys and sadness, Are babbled out and soon revealed.

…what your life means depends on how you tell the story.

Puerto Rico was the Republic of Texas on jet-fuel testosterone and psychedelic estrogen.

You know who is for you and against you when you confront.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

I only want to sleep . . . and never wake.

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus.