The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

Dance with me through moments of surreality. We are one.

If you give, expecting something in return, it's not really giving at all.If you love, expecting something in return, it's not really loving at all.

The company may have captured their minds, their bodies and their pockets, but that doesn’t mean it’s captured their hearts.

To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

As we pay our tithing faithfully, the Lord will open the windows of heaven and pour out upon us His richest blessings.

It is important to have intensive blocks of time together. During our nights together there is a tremendous interchange of knowledge, power and awareness.

Beggars market their incapacity.

It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.