Of all things there remains to me only honor and life which is safe.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Paris isn't a city, it's a world.

Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.

There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.

I will simply deny you the crown, and..... Live forever!

(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

We should raise the national minimum wage.

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

Insight without action is worthless.

She had a bottomless well of love for me.

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness.

Love is an involuntary reaction to virtue.

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.