Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

Philip Pullman

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Augusto Roa Bastos

The best is the enemy of good.

Voltaire

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

Kahlil Gibran

I had a girlfriend that was so fat her belly button made an echo.

Rodney Dangerfield

Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

Source Unknown

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Michel de Montaigne

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, but must be current.

John Milton

I can't live without your Touch.You'll see that I've provided enough money to pay for at least twenty or so.

J. Sterling

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Martin Mull

Whether your pleasing or pissing everybody off, your doing something wrong.

David Cook

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

Clement of Alexandria