Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

A poem should not mean but be.

Friendship...is not something you learn in school, but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

That's the thing about love, you have to get lost to find someone you can trust.

...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.

I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.