Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Never offer unsolicited advice. The receiver might not know that you are smarter than him.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.

Don't be fooled. I kept all my workout clothes in that top hat.

Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)

[...] He tasted like snowflakes and wine, like winter and Will and London.

Civilisation is a conspiracy.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart.

Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.