Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

Toni Morrison

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.

Sarah Orne Jewett

The look of love alarms Because 'tis filled with fire; But the look of soft deceit Shall win the lover's hire.

William Blake

A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.

Masaharu Morimoto

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Tim O'Brien

A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.

Prabal Gurung

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

We pass through this world but once.

Stephen Jay Gould

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those dark, clustered houses encloses it

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two C

I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.

Jack Kerouac

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

Sofia Coppola

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

William E. Gladstone