People had always seemed to Gertrude rather like the beasts in Animal Farm : all equally detestable, but some more equally detestable than others.

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.

It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters.

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

I don't do 'black music, ' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.

A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.

Hollywood called me, asking me, "How much to do a movie with Farrah Fawcett?" "$50,000" They called back, "How about $20,000?" I said, "I'll pay it!"

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

I don't think there Is a way politically to beat "Insurgent Movement Of Populism".

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.