No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.