Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

To be free is often to be lonely.

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

Let all your thinks be thanks.

Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky.

There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.