For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

Love has two faces, one makes you alive and the other destroys you...

It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves

As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things

I haven't bought anything excessive. I do plan on buying an island and filling it with baby tigers, though.

I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.

From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.

Who we are is the part of us that is infinite, the part of us that never stops.