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

Boards don't hit back.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

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.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.