Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman." -Ranger to Stephanie

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development

Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice.

I've never been one to look too far ahead since I came back into the England side and I'm not going to change that view.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

Most of the new jobs that people are getting are part time because of Obamacare. Obamacare is falling out exactly as it was designed.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

What greater thing can you do - besides for God - than good for other people? That goes for you mean people, too - I mean, really, what is your problem?