Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Through the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam!

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

The thing about perspective-changing events is that they usually don't announce themselves as such.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

The only thing I can do is type. I learned that when I was 13.

Every great movement and which the conservative movement is, of course, every great movement ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time and I think they need new fusion of energy.

It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

I am always so happy to be at 'SNL.' I still feel like a kid when I'm there, like I can't believe I'm watching them make the show.

The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.