To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.

The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.

Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!

The biggest thing for me is surrounding myself with good people and steering clear, far clear, of all my demons in the past.

The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.