In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Charles Olson

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

Steve Jobs

Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.

Judy Biggert

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

Tom Robbins

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

Barack Obama

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.

Edward Noyes Westcott

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Michel de Montaigne

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Will Durant

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

Robert Mugabe

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

Mark Twain

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.

Jose Andres Puerta

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Jimmy Carter