Life has no friend.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

They lived and they laughed and they saw it was good.

The thinness of contemporary life. I can poke my finger through it.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

I live, like every real man, in my work.

More men would be treated like kings if they would only treat their wives like queens instead of servants.

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.