All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

Morning has broken Like the first morning. Blackbird has spoken Like the first bird.

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.

The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.

It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.

Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.

In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

Sometimes the issue isn't that your problems are so big, it's that you see yourself as being so small.

Most of my girlfriends are sent by the Devil and seem genuinely bemused when I do not succumb to their powers.

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

Vomit and feces are two reason I have decided not to procreate.

I always wanted to be a boy scout but was too poor. Couldn't do it.

After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

Pakistan has not recognized Israel... any such decision would be taken in supreme national interests after due consultation of the parliament.

There are, of course, many, many, many good cinematographers and unfortunately they don't work as much as many of those people who do those crazy, stupid movies.

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.