I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

What joy to fully know and feel the bond of true friendship.

Even if things do not work out as you thought they should for you, they do - in their own way, as they were meant to.

Figuring out what to do with your life is only Half of the equation, the more important half is, whom you are doing it with

The best things in life are appreciated most after they have been lost.

Yer feelin's is like ras'berry vinegar: if you're skeered to use 'em an' keep on savin' 'em, first thing you know they've done 'vaporated!

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

You can't win a game if you don't score any points.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

The idea of who my father is to me is very different than who he is to you, or to the rest of the world.