Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. – W. Somerset Maugham
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. – Jack London
I love coming home to Melbourne. The first thing I do is have a coffee. Its just so much better here than anywhere else. Its better than in Italy and I travel a lot. I crave it. – Curtis Stone