The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one’s grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless.

It’s the unknown that draws people.

You cannot hinder someone’s free will, that’s the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

If Erik existed and lived life in despair,We wish him to know we are here and we care.

Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in...

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,Eternal Wisdom can never die …

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

… you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so,...

Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author’s intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don’t make sense when...

It’s a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for.

… insanity is never reasonable.

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

… food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.

… a man doesn’t like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn’t know anything.

Now Leroux, what think youOf this twist to the story?

Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.

I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd.

When in doubt, throw doubt out and have a little faith….

… love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

… far be it from a French man to interfere with love.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

When Hitler marched across the RhineTo take the land of France,La dame de fer decided,‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’Let him take the land and city,The hills and every flower,One thing he will never have,The elegant...

Isn’t it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

Finding a taxi, she felt like a child pressing her nose to the window of a candy store as she watched the changing vista pass by while the twilight descended and the capital became bathed...

You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, ‘Well done.

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.

(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and...

… the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

Have they known scorn like youFive cellars down?

… it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career.

I’m all for fighting tyranny and oppression.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

… the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

To be, or not to be: what a question!

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before …

A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.

You mean something like ‘truth or dare’? I haven’t played that in a long time.” She didn’t think he would ever get himself entangled in a game like that, but it was addictive, a compromising...

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

Monsieur, you must be mad!Box Five can never be hadFor money, love or the world …