Who loves, raves.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Beliefs and definitions never clarify how Reality works -- they only distort perception of it.

On this lovely, lovely Hanukkah, drink your gin and tonica.

Why are there no windows in the toilets on aeroplanes? To protect you from the most dedicated perverts on the planet, hanging off the wing to get a peep?

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.

I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.

The heart of the human problem, is the problem of the human heart.

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.