All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

God liberated us from darkness to walk in the glorious light.

You are the result of the tension between who you think you should be and what you really are.

Enjoy your obscurity while it lasts.

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.

We write to discover what we think.

The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.