Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

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.

When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly enthusiastically unremittingly woo her.

Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.

But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.

Love is Fallen.... Like *FALLEN* ANGELS.

I'm excited and terrified to write something new.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

We shouldn't consider smaller countries insignificant. I abide by this principle.

We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.