The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy! I'm the Magical Man from Happy-Land, in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

After the event, even a fool is wise.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken, and with them the mighty mount, Olympus trembled.

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

Hardship brings people closer together if you share it.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.