The ways we miss our lives are life.

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 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.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

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.

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

Your world is nothing but a reflection of your mind.

Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.

Avarice is opposed to nobility.It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (greed) is cloaked in the nobility that is the birthmark of the people.

There must be somebody there, because somebody must have said "Nobody.

I always say the next big thing will happen in unexpected places - up and coming cities that aren't necessarily boom markets.

If you have freedom of speech, you have freedom of speech.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.