One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half the time isn't, the way it ought to be in the novel.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

Life has no destination, it is a journey to see the beauty.

Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn’t choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.

Everything happens for a reason, and nothing is an accident. It is all part of a much larger divine plan.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.

Finding relief in your problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem.

As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.

What you hold in your heart, you will see in your world.

I think that's the fundamental thing - you can go anywhere you like as long as you're following a character that the audience likes and understands.