America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.
I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
It's amazing how photography can capture just a split second of something exquisite.
I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself
Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.