Pastoral Resources

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.

That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in Rio Bravo.

I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

I love to read aloud.

I like a composer called Henry Purcell, and I love to listen to Neil Young.