Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given

That I shall love always, I argue theethat love is life,and life hath immortality

Emily Dickinson

The truth is that, from the immense spectacle of the world, each novelists retains the one adventure which enable shim to give expression to his own essential self, just as the painter sees in nature only pictures painted in his manner.

Andre Maurois

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Oscar Wilde

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann von Goethe

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

Will Rogers, March 1, 1931

A blind lover, don't knowwhat I love till I write it out

Michael Ondaatje

I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general level, no, I wouldn't trust 'em at all.

Keith Richards

Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of it all.

Cassandra Clare

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Gerald Brenan

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Mark Twain

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

Martin Scorsese