All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

Never Expect Loyalty From A Person That Can't Give You Honesty.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

Be courageous! Never fear to take a chance.

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

The pain is not about having cheap people around…. real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.

By the way, dancers are not human beings. How can you be human and do what they do?

The whole thing about rock music, pop music, is it's really for kids.

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.