Love doesn't want people to stay ignorant and frightened. Love doesn't value obedience over all else. Love doesn't judge and find some lives--or loves--more valuable than others. Love doesn't use people and throw them away. Love stays, and makes you stronger, even when the person you love is gone.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

Mark Strand

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Mick Jagger

Time itself comes in drops.

William James

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Donna Brazile

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Sir Josiah Stamp

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

Brian Eno

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Alan Alda

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

Paul Samuelson

if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)haveone. It will not be a pansy heaven ora fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley butit will be a heaven of blackred rosesmy father will be(deep like a rosetall like a rose)standing near myswaying over her(silent)with eyes which are really petals and seenothing with the face of a poet really whichis a flower and not a face withhandswhich whisperThis is my beloved my(suddenly in sunlighthe will bow,and the whole garden will bow)

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Jim Morrison

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

Wesley Snipes

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Paul McCartney