For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Follow your path, and let the people talk.

Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)

I'm a multi-faceted woman and person, like all women are - there's no black and white. We have shades of grey in the middle. And even many more colours that other people don't see!

Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high! Come to the edge! And they came, and he pushed, and they flew.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

No body of men can be said to authorize a man to act as their agent, to the injury of a third person.

I am doing what I love to do.

I don’t understand why everybody thinks that dressing casually is so much more comfortable. I’m as comfortable in a suit as I am in anything else.

Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.