Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Crows don’t take from you, ” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

Don’t make your life complicated. Adapt to every circumstance.

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.

You can't write a poem until you live.

Good is not good where better is expected.

Jeb Bush announced today on the Internet that he may run for president. The next presidential election could be Bush vs. Clinton. It will be like 1992 all over again except I won't be in rehab.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!