Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.
You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called "Arthur King," you and all your silly English K-nig-hts.
I like to hear a person say, "It needed to be done." As opposed to a person saying, "It ain't my job."
Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?
Today, no matter what you're doing – music, art, comics, gaming – you have an opportunity to create our next reality.
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they would get, but if you work hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
Sex is for two things: making babies and revenge.
Just promise me we won't do anything else with them. I want to go back to being weird. I like being weird. Weird is all I've got. That and my sweet style.
Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.
You may disguise your features but you can never disguise your intent.
Oh, marvellous. You're going to kill me. What a finely tuned response to the situation.
That best portion of a good man's life — his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem; I whisper with my lips close to your ear, I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
I can resist everything except temptation.
It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.
What if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today!
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Cowardice asks the question- Is it safe? Expediency asks the question- Is it politic? Vanity asks the question- Is it popular? But conscience asks the question- Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position That is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; But one must take it because it is right.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may,—light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.
They say you fall in love. But you don't just fall down, Scraping your knees. Love smacks you Hard Right in the face, Leaving A huge Invisible Bruise All over Your soul.