Life is an incurable disease.

And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Of all ills that one endures, hope is a cheap and universal cure.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, to-morrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

There's enough of everything to go around for everybody but not without awareness and positive beliefs about abundance.

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

And now Lord what wait I for?

My dad was so much fun growing up.

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.