In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

James Schuyler

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

Stephen King

There is no question that I am the only thing standing between these animals and the business practices of August and Uncle Al, and what my father would do--what my father would want me to do--is look after them, and I am filled with that absolute and unwavering conviction. No matter what I did last night, I cannot leave these animals. I am their shepherd, their protector.

Sara Gruen

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

Mark Harmon

A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.

Adrian Edmondson

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Charles Spurgeon

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

Bill Watterson

Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

Bernadette Peters

We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away.

R. Southwell

I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

Nate Ruess

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.

Carmelo Anthony

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

William Blum