I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.
Love's a disease. But curable.
One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.
Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.
Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal. . . unless she's really attractive.
Words, living and ghostly, the quick and the dead, crowd and jostle the otherwise too empty corridors of my mind. . . To move among this bright, strange, often fabulous herd of beings, to summon them at my will, to fasten them on to paper like flies, that they may decorate it, this is the pleasure of writing.
I don't have an interest in being a director-for-hire on sitcoms - but if it's a really cool show that I thought I could bring something to, I would love to do that.
I’m so sorry to disappoint you,” she said, breathing hard. “But it would take far more than that to scare me. ” A quick flex of his arms, and their bodies collided. And he whispered, just as his mouth fell on hers, “God, I was hoping you’d say that.
It is a momentous fact that a man may be good, or he may be bad; his life may be true, or it may be false; it may be either a shame or a glory to him. The good man builds himself up; the bad man destroys himself.
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.