It made me happy that poems are referred to in the present tense even when the poet is in the past tense.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

Too many words for one book--truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn’t share them all at once.

Don’t worry, my friend. I won’t let you die.” I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

It is better to leave a child well instructed than to hand over the whole world in the hands of a fool

Voting is a civic sacrament.

The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.

Sometimes in a restaurant you'll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something... a little fan is always a little bit nice.