They say you have to be good to be lucky, but I think you have to be lucky to be good.

You only live once so, lets make a difference people will remember.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

Gabriel is a unique archangel in the sense that it is almost certain that she is the only female in the higher echelons.

In school [I wanted] to be an English teacher.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.

And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning. ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.