"There are only two styles of portrait..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.”

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

“There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”

“We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'”

“If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.”

“All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.”

“When you're feeling terrific, notify your face.”

“He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.”

“Speak to me as to thy thinkings,As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words.”