I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?

The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.

How does a copy become more than a copy? Is art the creation of something new and original, or simply the continuous enlargement, or the distillation, of an observation that came before

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow, ” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

If some people say what is in their hearts and other people say what glides easily off the tongue, how can we talk to one another?

I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.

It took me 25 years for me to realize who I am. Now I'm going to use the next 75 years to focus on how I want to be remembered. One quarter down, three to go!

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

I'm curvy and wholesome.

I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.

Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.

The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man.

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.

Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?