"In one's garden a person may be one's own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the romance of possibility."

“One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.”

“Living, it's awful for me.”

Source : "The Cure's Robert Smith: 'I'm uncomfortable with politicised musicians'" by Louis Pattison, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

“I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.”

“I didn't really had a good answer, as so often -- is me. But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you need to go home and look it up. Before you look it up, I'll tell you what it says though. It says, hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it's good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage, 'I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you,' and I'm like, 'Okay, I'm in good company.'”

“As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.”

“There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1855). “Beaumont and Fletcher: or, The finest scenes, lyrics, and other beauties of those two poets, now first selected from the whole of their works, to the exclusion of whatever is morally objectionable: with opinions of distinguished critics, notes explanatory and otherwise, and a general introductory preface”, p.207

“Just a few thousand Hezbollah fighters set two countries on fire all by themselves. Don't discount what bloody mayhem and hell a few thousand armed Druze, Christians, and Sunni can do if they decide to go hunting Shia in revenge for destroying their country.”

“Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.”