Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life?

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Let go of rejections and focus on self-reflection. For it is within that you will find the light you seek.

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

You can use your idealism to further your aims, if you realize that nothing is Nirvana, nothing is perfect.

Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.