The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.

A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

Sometimes things work just because you think they work. It's as good a definition of faith as any.

Even when the lightening flashes inside them we say they are only clouds and turn our attention to the next meal, the next pain, the next breath, the next page. This is how we go on.

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.

Learn from your mistakes, trying to figure out what the best way to go forward is.

The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.

Most train to be part of the game. The greatest train to be the game: I am the game. Third-and-9, two-minutes left, that's what I train for. I train for moments everyone runs from. I run for them.

So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for my wife, for an occasion, such as our anniversary.

Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education