God's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Allen Ginsberg

My secrets cry aloud. I have no need for tongue. My heart keeps open house, My doors are widely swung. An epic of the eyes My love, with no disguise.

Theodore Roethke

I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.

Carl Hiaasen

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Oliver Goldsmith

The thought of suicide is a powerful solace: by means of it one gets through many a bad night

Friedrich Nietzsche

What the public expects and what is healthy for an individual are two very different things.

Esther Williams

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

Bonnie Raitt

Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.

C. H. Fowler

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Ivan Goncharov

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

W. H. Auden

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Robert Frost