Samuel Butler

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.

The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.

I was a poem, she was a melody, songs emerged between us.

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.

Crack me open and get drunk on the contents of my spirit. Warning: consuming too much may have permanent effects.

I never thought love could be so deep, so wide, so open, so full, so elevating! Such a teacher! Thank you for teaching me, growing me, deepening me!!

The moonlight melts into lace across your thighs. Unbridled passion, an Elliott Smith vinyl, and the intimate place of you.

It’s amazing what passes for love these days – crows parading as blue jays.

Drownin’ in the sea of love where everyone would love to drown.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Everything I know, I know because of love.

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

I’m a different man now. I’m still a romantic, I still believe in love, but when I met Barbara I was looking for it. Now, I don’t know.

You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch.

I bet you kiss your knuckles right before they touch my cheek.

Love is only one fine star away.