My heart hath followed all my days Something I cannot name.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings.

It was magic, the oldest magic of all when day became night, gods working in tandem, and I gave it the full benefit of my witness for the singular wonder it was.

I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.

It is only when one knows the unutterability of the name of God that one can utter the name of Jesus Christ

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments

History should be about every generation's will to power.

One of the best days of your life can be when you finally say, 'I've had it!' then stand up and fight.

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.

Printing money creates inflation, which weakens an economy. Unfortunately, this kind of common-sense thinking never seems to penetrate academic circles.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.