Who will read these poems when the people are gone?

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

And as I venture into anothers pit of everlasting darkness, I'll return with a simple blackened rose. and with that rose I shall write the stories it tells.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Be a storehouse of happy memories.

It always shocked me how you could understand so many things and be such a complete idiot about so many others.

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

I am a very impatient director.

It's important to use executive orders. Every president since Washington has.

Because the pot takes the edge off the adrenaline, and it also clears your mind of it, and then you can see things a lot clearer.