Truth, like love, is never absolute.

I want people to know they don’t have to live their lives in a permanent ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ existence. Truth is a powerful tool.

Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.

Life is finite so celebrate your birthday with infinite joy.

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask for we never tell him all and it is usually what we have left unsaid that decides our conduct.

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

You collect as much information as you can and then you put it into the mulberry of your mind and hope that you come up with a decent wine. Sometimes you do; sometimes you don't.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.