You should have a softer pillow than my heart.

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.

man can not live on chocolate .... but women can

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

I think it'd be disgraceful if a chap wasn't allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn't misbehave in some trivial way.

A poor white woman from the South is different than a poor black woman from the South, and has a completely different experience.

I can reach people the average person can't reach because I'm as grounded as I am.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.