The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

Al: Now, remind me, who's walking who down the aisle again?

Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself.

Without sense of direction, efforts land nowhere.

No actions, no results. Everything else is a commentary.

Some people write letters, in the library.

My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night.

A religious ought to dread more being afraid of poverty than experiencing it.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Martin Jol is literally a dead man walking

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.