Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

Marcel Proust

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty I hate equality.

John Randolph

Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.

Michael Levine, quoted in The Em

Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

Erik H. Erickson

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

Jeff Bridges

There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.

J.K. Rowling

Be happy with who you are and respect not only others but your own opinions and beliefs as well, that way we can all live along peacefully.

Isabella Irini Poretsis

Things are seldom what they seem.

W. S. Gilbert

I fell in love with many women at school who had no idea I existed. I'm a bit of a romantic.

Eric Bana

We can learn from history on condition that we understand it is history.

Roger Kaplan

From year to year, and from age to age, we see [biologists] at work, adding no doubt much to the unknown, and advancing many important interests, but, at the same time, doing little for the establishment of comprehensive views of nature. Experiments in however narrow a walk, facts of whatever minuteness, make reputations in scientific societies; all beyond is regarded with suspicion and distrust.

Robert Chambers

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

Chuck Close