Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

I had feared that love would make me vulnerable. Instead I felt empowered.

I don't get it when girls say 'I'm fine' but don't mean it.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

A Jew never laughs without looking at his wife for approval.

Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.