Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort.

I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough.

Stop complaining and do something... Shut up! Rise up! Grow up! And show up! See you at the top!

People usually reveal only those aspects of life that enhance their personality & image, but in my case I love amusing people by being myself!

You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace.

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

Only a fool wants a confrontation and only a fool wants a strike.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand.

I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner circuitries of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.