I have not learned how often I Can win, can love, but choose to die.

And you, whiner, who wastes your time Dawdling over the remorseless earth, What evil, what unspeakable crime Have you made your life worth?

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.

And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.

I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, loosen love and crying; To ease my woman so she came, To ease an old man who was dying.

The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.

The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.

Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.

You must call up every strength you own And you can rip off the whole facial mask.

Hope is possible, when you decide to believe that what you are hoping for is possible.

After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be worse than your dream life.

Give me some sugar.

Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history.

I Do Not Like Canadians, I Love Them.

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

We will die, but art will remain.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Our country doesn't depend on the heroism of every citizen. But all of us should be worthy of the sacrifices made on our behalf.

A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.