"If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val"

“I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.”

“As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.”

“Blind in the eye, so I see you with my heart”

Source : Song: Us, Album: Us, 2009

“What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.”

Source : "In Rufinum". II. 52. Reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", p. 677, 1922.

“The only defense against evil, violent people is good people who are more skilled at violence.”

“What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.”

Source : "TriBeCa Interview: My Life In Ruins with Nia Vardalos". Interview with Matthew-Lee Erlbach, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2009.

“Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind. Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die. The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie. Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.”

“No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.”