💬 Quotes

"If we shadows have offended, / Think but this, and all is mended, / That you have but slumbered here / While these visions did appear."

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet / Are of imagination all compact."

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself."

"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love."

"Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears."

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple."

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy also."

"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets."

"You don't get it, do you? The world is a sewer, and we're the guys with the long poles cleaning out the shit."

"The past is a foreign country where they do things differently—and usually with a caliber of .38."

"There are no heroes. There are only guys who get lucky and guys who get caught."

"We’re the guys who make the history books look like fairy tales for children. We live in the footnotes."

"Money is the only honest thing in this country. It talks, it screams, and it never tells a lie."

"She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris."

"Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for dancing bears, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity."

"The future was like a dark corridor with its door at the end shut tight."

"They had a great deal to say to each other, but because they were so familiar, they remained silent, like a married couple who had exhausted all intimacy."

"Whatever is not worth a great deal is cheap; one cannot look for quality at a low price."

"Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we hammer out tunes that make bears dance, when we long to move the stars to pity."