Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Health care in America must be a right, not a privilege.

I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

I’ve learned that if you can’t get it all together to accomplish this thing called peace, you do at least your part in your life, because that’s where you can truly make an immediate difference.

In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.

We see which way the stream of time doth run.

Florida was invented for Addison Mizner's little brother.