You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable. Who can know it?

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

There is a fine line between passion and gas.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

Literally, my last call was with David Blaine, congratulating him on his show. I have a camaraderie with David.

Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger. And when you live well, then consider the most your life, lest ruin take it unawares.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.