If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It".

Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end.

Why is such a bad thing to die?

Some set great value on method, while others pride themselves on dispensing with method.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Winning isn't always championships.

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.