I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.

We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.

Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.

Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.

See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.

Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for.

It's not wrinkles. I just have too much skin for the size of my face.

I trust that I can hit a fastball, that I can hit any pitch they throw to me.

My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction.

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.

For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.

The real problem with the IRS is that they let General Electric not pay any taxes -- and 50 other corporations -- that's the real scandal.

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise.

At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic Church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 Magnum .

I don't like to label films with a genre.