Where is delight? and what are pleasures now?-Moths that a garment fret.The world is turned memorial, crying, "ThouShalt not forget!

Breathe slumbrous music round me, sweet and slow,To honied phrases set!Into the land of dreams I long to go.Bid me forget!

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

How often one talks not to hear what the other person has got to say, but to hear what one has got to say oneself!

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.

Is this wide world not large enough to fill thee,Nor Nature, nor that deep man's Nature, Art?Are they too thin, too weak and poor to still thee,Thou little heart?

The fruits of the tree of Knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.

If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world.

If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

You might be a redneck if...Your only condiment on the dining room table is the economy size bottle of ketchup.

Goodness in words creates trust, goodness in thinking creates depth, goodness in giving creates love.

The thing I realized this last few days is that the earth is a big place.

The tendency when you dictate is to overwrite, because you're not counting pages, you don't really know what the hell the page count is.

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.

Kubrick was one of those directors who actually did practically everything in his movies. He actually directed, photographed, wrote, lit, edited - everything. A few people can be like that.