Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators

Love without sacrifice is like theft

What I learned on my own I still remember

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

His youth was a wingless Dodo.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

The Mr. absent, and the house dead.

I love both puppies and kitties. I could just scrunch up their little faces!

I've found out that falling in love doesn't have anything to do with time. It can take a year or an instant. It happens when it's ready to happen.

The world makes us look towards ourselves, our possessions, our desires.The Gospel invites us to be open to others, to share with the poor.

The Federal Reserve and Congress have systematically taught the American people to trust the government and that caution in spending is harmful to the economy.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.