"Never durst poet touch a pen to..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.”

“Remembrance of things past.”

“Hardness ever of hardness is mother.”

“In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.”

“My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don’t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this.”

“You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.”

“I want a trouble-maker for a lover, Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of flame, Who quarrels with the sky and fights with fate, Who burns like fire on the rushing sea.”

“I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.”

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”