Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.

I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

There are two kinds of stories, the ones you live and the ones you make up. And nobody knows the difference, and I don't ever tell which is which.