Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!

Autumn's the mellow time.

Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

All mothers are rivers and all rivers, mothers.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots.

I always managed to fly a bit below the radar, but high enough to avoid colliding into anything.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.

...It's just one hour. Just one little hour. What could happen in one hour?

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

There is a difference between God as a sense of comfort, and God actually telling you what to do!

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.