Read at whim! Read at whim!

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.

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.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge.

How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.

Hang onto that goal and you do what you have to do to make it happen.

There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.

North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.