The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Love is the last light spoken.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

Everyone needs someone to tell them not to wear so much Prada.

The reality of having a kid involves day-to-day practicality - not broader philosophical outlooks.

When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.