The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.

O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

Adversity is the true school of the mind.

It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

America! America! God shed His grace on thee.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

When you reach the mountaintop look upand think of how high you must leap to reach the stars.

The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.

The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art.

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

Growing up, I was always in normal public school which is very important in my eyes.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.