The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole —And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

A drop of ink may make a million think.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

there was nothing to be ashamed of in doing jobs simply to make a living, so long as those jobs fueled other creative efforts

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: "Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.

And I thought:History is like a horror story.

Your sorrow is yours--truly yours. No one can borrow or share it. No one can carry it for you.

I believe there's too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

We're too smart to know there aren't easy answers. But we're not dumb enough to accept that there aren't better answers.

I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.