Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time.

Taste is the feminine of genius.

I am all for the short and merry life.

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.

A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now.

Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword.

If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.

Life is like a precious pearl.

As you think you travel and as you love you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

A lot of people perceive women as sexy based on their outer appeal. But there's no way to mistake if a woman is confident.