Age doth not rectify, but incurvate our natures, turning bad dispositions into worser habits.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

But I did go back and soon I realized why. I was in love

Transform yourself from desperate doormat to outspoken doormat-wielding proctologist.

Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.

Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuitNone of it is math.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

In my downtime, for fun, I engage in philosophical internet debates. Yeah, I'm that guy.