What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest - without asking to be paid.

He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.

Love rays us round as glory swathes a star, And, from the mystic touch of lips and palms, Streams rosy warmth!

Music is the voice of all sorrow, all joy. It needs no translation.

...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.

Listen to everyone, read everything; believe absolutely nothing unless you can prove it in your own right!

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.