A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach!Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.