Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

It is legal because I wish it.

My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck.

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano.

Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth.

I’m a running coach and I am going to continue to run, but I would hope that we are better defensively.

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

I feel like so often I'm just, like, running around and eating in the car, which is, like, not good, or eating as I'm walking down the street.

Those tax-exempt bonds were put in so that a town or a state or a government could sell more bonds than it ought to.