When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got to throw up both hands and own up to carelessness or cussedness.

As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.

I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake you're dead.

We make my opponent out as a monster. We focus on his strengths because that's what we need to negate.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

If you're driving more than 50 mph through a neighborhood where the speed limit is 25 mph, I question whether you should keep your driver's license. You're a menace to society.