Sally has a smile I would accept as my last view on earth...

Hard writing makes easy reading.

A poet is somebody who has written a poem.

A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.

Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.

I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...

This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.

Success is not so much what you are but rather what you appear to be.

The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

Im very easy going and low maintenance when it comes to my hair.

There's always going to be someone as funny as you or funnier.

Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.