We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.

Beware of parting! The true sadness is not in the pain of the parting; it is in the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view.

Will our souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream?

Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.

The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others.

to live means to lack something at every moment

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

'Tis sweet to kiss a girl on Spring's first day, but only half so sweet as 'tis to kiss a girl on her bootyhole.

If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.