Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

There's never an end for the sea.

Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

Lies do not lie, truth do, In the times of any act lies lie hidden behind.

There is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'See, this is new?' it had been already of old time, which was before us.

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.

As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

That's why I'm not to be trusted. Because a wound to the heart is also a wound to the mind

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than just passion and hope. It's important to do what I'm good at and suits me.