"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."

"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

"I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job."

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."