Small service is true service, while it lasts.

Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils.

one daffodil is worth a thousand pleasures, then one is too few.

Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

How many undervalue the power of simplicity ! But it is the real key to the heart.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least.

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

Where were we? I've forgotten. He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.Right. Yes. The usual choices.

Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment.

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

The straight line is ungodly.

There is no better day than today to do the things you've been putting off. Take action; it's the only way to change your life!

You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.

The best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.