Stay put and you will remain as such. Jump in and you might get wet. Dive and you might find true happiness.

If the only thing keeping your partner in relationship with you is your money, then be prepared to lose that person to someone else with more money than you.

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.

I can feel glamorous without makeup, especially on my lips. They're naturally reddish, so I often let them go.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

I mean 'One Tree Hill' had some rabid fans - you'd be surprised - they're almost in a class of their own.

How beautiful is sunset when the glow Of Heaven descends upon a land like thee, Thou Paradise of exiles, Italy!

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.