Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Mmm, bacon.

...the real is coherent and probable because it is real, not real because it is coherent...

When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.

I'll talk. You'll listen.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

A lover fears all that he believes.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.