To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, angels affect us oft, and worshiped be.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Nature is powerless to put asunder.

–We are all dying– she told me. –Even something of the immortal will die–“What?”–Meaning–

The first step to boosting your income is to identify where your passion lives and to be true to it.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

I don't know if all the women in the photographs are beautiful, but I do know that the women are beautiful in the photographs.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.