Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

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.

Do we fulfill our obligations by being practical all the time?

Values are the deeply held beliefs that drive and direct your behavior.

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

"Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today," says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from his gaze.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.