I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

There's no point having wishes if you don't at least try to do them

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

Cause I'm Irish, and everyone remembers me.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

There are still very few laws against thinking, although I am sure they're working hard on that in Washington.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

You can't say your favorite kind of cake is birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

You think when gym teachers were younger, they're thinking, "You know, I want to teach...but I don't want to read. How about kickball for 40 years?"

Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

The brain is closer to the skull.

Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours, Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers.

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse.