My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

Diane Wakoski

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Albert Einstein

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

John Hope

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

John Donne

The flush on her pale cheeks was like the blush of sunset on snow.

Faraaz Kazi

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

Kesha

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

Harrison Christian, 1995 newspap

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

Melanie Laurent

At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.

John Donne

I've never been a TV junkie. I remember watching Letterman way back when he had a morning show.

Todd Barry

The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas.

Bill Vaughan

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Anatole France