A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

ON PROBLEMSOur choicest planshave fallen through, our airiest castlestumbled over, because of lineswe neatly drewand later neatlystumbled over.

Innovators are at their very heart visionaries who also have determination, dedication, passion and motivation.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg