When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

Leaders who do not help the people must be replaced by the people.

I prefer to solve the world's problems. They never seem as complicated as my own.

Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.

Failure is the key to success each mistake teaches us something.

You can reverse your biological age by changing your perceptions.

I feel bad for people who die on Valentine's Day. How much would flowers cost then, ten grand?

Nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax, and it's a great big one.

People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.