Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense

I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.

The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

Education is the manifestation of perfection already existing in man.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

I am responsible only to God and history.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

If the girls keep dancing, everybody's happy. If the girls don't dance, nobody's happy.

Cause if you’re happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

A tale in everything.