Wild nights are my glory!

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.