People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Mark Strand

Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last.

Edgar Allan Poe

She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.

Terry Pratchett

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

Lil Wayne

Love makes us liars.

Cassandra Clare

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it, and I didn't inhale, and I never tried again.

William Jefferson Clinton

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

Mahalia Jackson

Arrange Whatever pieces come your way.

Virginia Woolf

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

You don't have to dislike people you disagree with and it doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to have bipartisan friendships in this place. Life's too short to have it any other way.

Dave Obey

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Hal Borland