Habits are happiness of a sort...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.

With so many dark things to worry about in the world right now, I hope people will just go with the fun and enjoy [ Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man.

This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?

I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space.

You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences.

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization.

I long to kiss the image of my death.