Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Jihadis have a better bureaucracy than India.

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.

Usually when you play a team, you want to focus on one line. Pittsburgh is the only team where you have to focus on one player [Mario Lemieux]. When he's coming toward you, all you see is him.

Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.

I played pretend games as a kid, army, whatever, but I never wanted to be an actor.

I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?