A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength

God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you.

Human Prejudice is Dark Fate's favourite friend

Just because you can't believe it, doesn't mean it's not happening

In a sea of strangers, you've longed to know me.Your life spent sailingto my shores.

I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.

The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

A hooker once told me she had a headache.