Love is love's reward.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

But love's a malady without a cure.

And plenty makes us poor.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

They can conquer who believe they can.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Love conquers all.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

To have died once is enough.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Time is flying never to return.

Time flies never to be recalled.

Time passes irrevocably.

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.

Trust not too much to appearances.

Trust one who has tried.

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?

I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Remember when you were in school and the teacher would put a picture under an overhead projector so you could see it on the wall? God, I loved that. Tellya the truth, I used to look at that beam of light and think it was God.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. 'Look Homeward Angel' and 'Of Time and the River.' 'Of Time and the River' had just come out when I was aware of his name. My parents had a hard time convincing me that he was no kin whatsoever. My attitude was, 'Well, what's he doing on the shelf, then?'

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.'

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.

Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the creature. The word has connotations of some level of intelligence. The typical nerd is a male with intelligence but no sense of giving it a manly face.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor - women can't drive, things like that. That's about the level of a lot of newspaper humor. It becomes a form of laziness.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.