I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

After a full belly all is poetry.

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Guilt cannot change you

Thè Scripture is a Divine Word.

... mommahelp meturn the face of historyto your face.- Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother

She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

Nor was I the only one struggling.To live an ordinary life, like any ordinary person, must have been the vain dream of countless others.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.