Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time.

I am all for the short and merry life.

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.

A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now.

That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other.

It's so free to know that I do not have to compensate or make excuses for being treated poorly in relationships. I can simply move forward knowing I deserve better

You are not a handgun. More like a pellet gun. Maybe even a slingshot.

Besides my great fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica.

Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.

I can't stay in the box and wait for the ball. I can't - I would die.

The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.