Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Road is road.

Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.

The Bible will teach you, correct you, instruct you, and give you hope.

Maxim 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Literature is the immortality of speech.

He who shall practice these twenty virtues shall become invincible in all his undertakings.

Everything has to do with murder.

Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.