I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

Oscar Wilde may have quipped that one can “never be overdressed or overeducated, ” but Wilde did not live in our era of overeducated baristas.

My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience.

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy.

On average, drug prisoners spend more time in federal prison than rapists, who often get out on early release because of the overcrowding in prison caused by the Drug War.

If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?