Worse than despair, Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

Leave the past behind. Give privacy your future . Body and mind in yours now. Perceive the world around you, feel the world inside.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?""No, " I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check.

Harold is clever from Person of Interest.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

A new presidential poll reveals that Democrats have the edge among voters under 30. The good news for Republicans is that there's only six people under 30 who actually vote.

I don't really listen to the radio too much. I know that one song, "Hotline Bling."

It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

Few women care what a man looks like, and a good thing too.