Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The best way out is always through.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Magic is an ancient practice that has power over superstitious mind.

You might be a fairy tale leprechaun man but at the heart of it you're still a man who won't talk about anything.

Mori looked across and was, briefly, a languageless, inhuman thing rescued from the sea and asked for an impious favour.

I'm not good at living in the grim places...when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide.

I came to Congress to help reduce spending.

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed to making things up—that did not quite happen.

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.